Pith Number

pith:BDZTUNGY

pith:2017:BDZTUNGYZUJO5VORYWLXHPIVBC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring social spam and the effect of bots on information diffusion in social media

Emilio Ferrara

arxiv:1708.08134 v1 · 2017-08-27 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDZTUNGYZUJO5VORYWLXHPIVBC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:04:45.288887Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08f33a34d8cd12eed5d1c59773bd15088940f2257dee4128f78d0371ffabaee6

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08134 · arxiv_version: 1708.08134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08134 · pith_short_12: BDZTUNGYZUJO · pith_short_16: BDZTUNGYZUJO5VOR · pith_short_8: BDZTUNGY

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/BDZTUNGYZUJO5VORYWLXHPIVBC \
  | 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: 08f33a34d8cd12eed5d1c59773bd15088940f2257dee4128f78d0371ffabaee6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1eb0e07a1fff4b6d86da89777bc6a69927137ebcc63cdeecfbcbe26aed3de9de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-27T20:30:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71af7c50725f63a3755853d1ce93ed168cccacf03fc0de88af1c966e8ec74c25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}