Pith Number

pith:BBVYDNLY

pith:2016:BBVYDNLYMISUA3MCEK5SKEKWHM

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Network analysis method: correlation values between two arbitrary points on a network

Akira Saito

arxiv:1608.00016 v5 · 2016-07-29 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BBVYDNLYMISUA3MCEK5SKEKWHM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:39.408718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

086b81b5786225406d8222bb2511563b2e3b2ad6d9e355712dce23ca44e3f55a

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.00016 · arxiv_version: 1608.00016v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.00016 · pith_short_12: BBVYDNLYMISU · pith_short_16: BBVYDNLYMISUA3MC · pith_short_8: BBVYDNLY

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/BBVYDNLYMISUA3MCEK5SKEKWHM \
  | 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: 086b81b5786225406d8222bb2511563b2e3b2ad6d9e355712dce23ca44e3f55a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c4a7a8aa23277af2173066493537135b6c1c97b35087e88862a48dab6d8578a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-29T20:11:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5bb76d3ea67ef0e0e0e7e011cfcc6e6a6f526e8abe512ded82dc4e564253f56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.00016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}