Pith Number

pith:BYJTWIPH

pith:2017:BYJTWIPHUVLOVYH5VZHMIZKZXM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymmetric access to information impacts the power-law exponent in networks

Neil F. Johnson, Zhenfeng Cao, Zhou He

arxiv:1712.06169 v1 · 2017-12-17 · physics.soc-ph · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYJTWIPHUVLOVYH5VZHMIZKZXM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:09.072079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e133b21e7a556eae0fdae4ec46559bb364d57009ea6f73464dfec58f5b59179

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06169 · arxiv_version: 1712.06169v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06169 · pith_short_12: BYJTWIPHUVLO · pith_short_16: BYJTWIPHUVLOVYH5 · pith_short_8: BYJTWIPH

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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/BYJTWIPHUVLOVYH5VZHMIZKZXM \
  | 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: 0e133b21e7a556eae0fdae4ec46559bb364d57009ea6f73464dfec58f5b59179

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da31c91526d70377ce3e88bb4185a44edd68156df3181dd2626d5a7850ce8da3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-17T20:01:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b949c57d13933254c913c659e3101bdb9e9be296d839ccfa35f5d91ae3e4c77d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}