Pith Number

pith:BZRV5E3A

pith:2015:BZRV5E3A3YHOZWSJEMCLK6QSTP

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The Lifecycles of Apps in a Social Ecosystem

Isabel Kloumann, Jon Kleinberg, Lada Adamic, Shaomei Wu

arxiv:1503.06870 v1 · 2015-03-23 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZRV5E3A3YHOZWSJEMCLK6QSTP}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:29.892258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e635e9360de0eecda492304b57a129bdfad0fc3bce6607540da916717984b87

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.06870 · arxiv_version: 1503.06870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.06870 · pith_short_12: BZRV5E3A3YHO · pith_short_16: BZRV5E3A3YHOZWSJ · pith_short_8: BZRV5E3A

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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/BZRV5E3A3YHOZWSJEMCLK6QSTP \
  | 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: 0e635e9360de0eecda492304b57a129bdfad0fc3bce6607540da916717984b87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd5761271966018a3fa3ebc03c51b0c762bfe278aca5871287211d89dee2df5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-23T22:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fcb1b60c839cd2a2a2a57aa95dceb7175f6e929f9b48def8f10a416029ca1201"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.06870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}