Pith Number

pith:7P5UVATE

pith:2017:7P5UVATEFGD46LHIA5OI7UHD52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complex Contagions: A Decade in Review

Damon Centola, Douglas Guilbeault, Joshua Becker

arxiv:1710.07606 v1 · 2017-10-20 · cs.SI · cs.MA · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7P5UVATEFGD46LHIA5OI7UHD52}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:32:24.388856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fbfb4a82642987cf2ce8075c8fd0e3eeb580c7d2c3a47521229c1e9df915e135

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.07606 · arxiv_version: 1710.07606v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07606 · pith_short_12: 7P5UVATEFGD4 · pith_short_16: 7P5UVATEFGD46LHI · pith_short_8: 7P5UVATE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7P5UVATEFGD46LHIA5OI7UHD52 \
  | 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: fbfb4a82642987cf2ce8075c8fd0e3eeb580c7d2c3a47521229c1e9df915e135

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "800a2709b2f623cad96ba41ae91b19a0e00d1be97c6bacdeb3338d0a2e5282cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-20T16:59:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6593c0ec93556d87c823d9286c2797b6ce4d4a1932c2a4d32bea7c88aa78cfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.07606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}