Pith Number

pith:EDQC3C5M

pith:2016:EDQC3C5M53PX6RV6IBBCE3OPJA

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The International Postal Network and Other Global Flows As Proxies for National Wellbeing

Alex Rutherford, Cecilia Mascolo, Desislava Hristova, Jose Anson, Miguel Luengo-Oroz

arxiv:1601.06028 v2 · 2016-01-22 · cs.CY · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EDQC3C5M53PX6RV6IBBCE3OPJA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:50.543277Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20e02d8baceedf7f46be4042226dcf483afc3ebf3df6fe742d0758239aa1d6cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06028 · arxiv_version: 1601.06028v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06028 · pith_short_12: EDQC3C5M53PX · pith_short_16: EDQC3C5M53PX6RV6 · pith_short_8: EDQC3C5M

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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/EDQC3C5M53PX6RV6IBBCE3OPJA \
  | 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: 20e02d8baceedf7f46be4042226dcf483afc3ebf3df6fe742d0758239aa1d6cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81bc54d79dbc29c2088b2afd3fed6f2e6eeaa6ed44c38df0a471489c615cf7fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-22T14:54:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3f4c51f8e41720a78a3be0c3e3d7c138a56dcc7afb1fd958dd3a6a2183d6343"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}