Pith Number

pith:DFYEODDK

pith:2017:DFYEODDKT2BIQEFQN7LQYNB2TL

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A thermodynamic parallel of the Braess road-network paradox

Kamal Bhattacharyya

arxiv:1703.02213 v1 · 2017-03-07 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · physics.chem-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DFYEODDKT2BIQEFQN7LQYNB2TL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:20.481642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1970470c6a9e828810b06fd70c343a9ae5079d7a4b50562ddf53390bd6a3aa7d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02213 · arxiv_version: 1703.02213v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02213 · pith_short_12: DFYEODDKT2BI · pith_short_16: DFYEODDKT2BIQEFQ · pith_short_8: DFYEODDK

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/DFYEODDKT2BIQEFQN7LQYNB2TL \
  | 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: 1970470c6a9e828810b06fd70c343a9ae5079d7a4b50562ddf53390bd6a3aa7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "023892be478156d6be800d7d1bde1f632725c6d1f8e5a2aa7b0ed11772ea4c33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "physics.chem-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-07T05:01:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "548e3a22a92ffc7fcfa16a8e9555217fd90f941b4b87e3922474cbd8c5523ba9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02213",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}