Pith Number

pith:A7MVGZF4

pith:2018:A7MVGZF44JRJ4NNB4SNFKJR4TB

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Choosing to Grow a Graph: Modeling Network Formation as Discrete Choice

Austin R. Benson, Jan Overgoor, Johan Ugander

arxiv:1811.05008 v3 · 2018-11-12 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A7MVGZF44JRJ4NNB4SNFKJR4TB}

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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	2026-07-05T01:04:44.958011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07d95364bce2629e35a1e49a55263c98428bab7473b91b12ee2530d158422dd7

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.05008 · arxiv_version: 1811.05008v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.05008 · pith_short_12: A7MVGZF44JRJ · pith_short_16: A7MVGZF44JRJ4NNB · pith_short_8: A7MVGZF4

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/A7MVGZF44JRJ4NNB4SNFKJR4TB \
  | 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: 07d95364bce2629e35a1e49a55263c98428bab7473b91b12ee2530d158422dd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71b3567adb857c644d57ac84514bf461f29e3317441368dfaa3ab10f48ba53cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-12T21:29:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f106a20c123cd3ad819122d54e1e01cd83a71b0d4f72baea2859c3cca5a02755"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.05008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}