Pith Number

pith:7OEJTBV7

pith:2009:7OEJTBV7XGAPLNHCSTPQBJCI3H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A critical look at power law modelling of the Internet

Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder, Richard G. Clegg, Shi Zhou

arxiv:0910.2140 v1 · 2009-10-12 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7OEJTBV7XGAPLNHCSTPQBJCI3H}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:29:48.773788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb889986bfb980f5b4e294df00a448d9e66b30623f009c3fc75b62521b94456b

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.2140 · arxiv_version: 0910.2140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.2140 · pith_short_12: 7OEJTBV7XGAP · pith_short_16: 7OEJTBV7XGAPLNHC · pith_short_8: 7OEJTBV7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7OEJTBV7XGAPLNHCSTPQBJCI3H \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: fb889986bfb980f5b4e294df00a448d9e66b30623f009c3fc75b62521b94456b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be464c525839067f047adda5caba67d3ec3357b844cffc773b3c8503213d3160",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-12T11:58:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4423f60f129092c355c9c42080ee51b7a214cc654a8c85f534703fb401b8d596"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.2140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}