Pith Number

pith:B6BMDFFL

pith:2024:B6BMDFFLAU2RHDRX2IEL4WOIGL

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Identifying the Source of Information Spread in Networks via Markov Chains

Amos Azaria, Noam Hazon, Yael Sabato

arxiv:2401.11330 v3 · 2024-01-20 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6BMDFFLAU2RHDRX2IEL4WOIGL}

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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	2026-05-20T01:06:02.954174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f82c194ab0535138e37d208be59c832d93c162e400e5a8feeb9d69a6d70e7a7

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.11330 · arxiv_version: 2401.11330v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.11330 · pith_short_12: B6BMDFFLAU2R · pith_short_16: B6BMDFFLAU2RHDRX · pith_short_8: B6BMDFFL

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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/B6BMDFFLAU2RHDRX2IEL4WOIGL \
  | 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: 0f82c194ab0535138e37d208be59c832d93c162e400e5a8feeb9d69a6d70e7a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b36753e7d985469d86324e050f8bd915fe14c661f27c0996686b3ca13f70816b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-20T21:38:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "116ecf07b2471c3eb9dae8365962e3bf120bdf9c35542b0efade9b1d36bde700"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.11330",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}