Pith Number

pith:AOBR3QV7

pith:2012:AOBR3QV75PVJJFIRJR4JZ3PMED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Locating the Source of Diffusion in Large-Scale Networks

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Pedro C. Pinto

arxiv:1208.2534 v1 · 2012-08-13 · cs.SI · cs.IR · physics.soc-ph

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:16.470574Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03831dc2bfebea9495114c789cedec20ec2dbac0cd247900b1b6d3ada83a07f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2534 · arxiv_version: 1208.2534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2534 · pith_short_12: AOBR3QV75PVJ · pith_short_16: AOBR3QV75PVJJFIR · pith_short_8: AOBR3QV7

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/AOBR3QV75PVJJFIRJR4JZ3PMED \
  | 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: 03831dc2bfebea9495114c789cedec20ec2dbac0cd247900b1b6d3ada83a07f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dacb6f3c446c921102cb93e8f839307e6f66afa1c86916ca2e3a911418cd8919",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-13T09:44:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eaf578f32988eecb513444202c0050d4d9ed2669578f8276ed732fb926e076d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}