Pith Number

pith:DW6HIILY

pith:2017:DW6HIILYHYRLDMUAS6VIJZTEPF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Preferential Attachment and Vertex Arrival Times

Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Peter Orbanz

arxiv:1710.02159 v1 · 2017-10-05 · math.PR · cs.SI · math.ST · physics.soc-ph · stat.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DW6HIILYHYRLDMUAS6VIJZTEPF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:34.313780Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1dbc7421783e22b1b28097aa84e6647969d9cec9a079838b9b2ebb7eecc16d8d

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02159 · arxiv_version: 1710.02159v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02159 · pith_short_12: DW6HIILYHYRL · pith_short_16: DW6HIILYHYRLDMUA · pith_short_8: DW6HIILY

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/DW6HIILYHYRLDMUAS6VIJZTEPF \
  | 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: 1dbc7421783e22b1b28097aa84e6647969d9cec9a079838b9b2ebb7eecc16d8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc3d0ddb0891c7cbbc12a2d557d9a4be3cfd28518ad7873f14135eea889759c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "math.ST",
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-05T18:01:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1769891a51099923b673503464dec5231fb09c891831940aac21dfcfade0047"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}