Pith Number

pith:BEGSFIZD

pith:2018:BEGSFIZDHNIWNOM6PSLPHPBCDY

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Going Viral: The Epidemiological Strategy of Referral Marketing

Kumar Gaurav, Saumik Bhattacharya, Sayantari Ghosh, Yatindra Nath Singh

arxiv:1808.03780 v1 · 2018-08-11 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEGSFIZDHNIWNOM6PSLPHPBCDY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:19.742959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

090d22a3233b5166b99e7c96f3bc221e3608b7e09aaba06e79e54a3a4f417499

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.03780 · arxiv_version: 1808.03780v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.03780 · pith_short_12: BEGSFIZDHNIW · pith_short_16: BEGSFIZDHNIWNOM6 · pith_short_8: BEGSFIZD

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/BEGSFIZDHNIWNOM6PSLPHPBCDY \
  | 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: 090d22a3233b5166b99e7c96f3bc221e3608b7e09aaba06e79e54a3a4f417499

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a0f2222a4316fd6eb5e936c7b17aba4c6825af98ee5b335d9aa37feb1170592",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-11T09:27:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7abe950478145a94985210381854e568d9e7a0b0e57777a7cc941b06219c627d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.03780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}