Pith Number

pith:EG5CIDJ5

pith:2004:EG5CIDJ5LYZYXOCFUIZM6S3AYK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Technological networks and the spread of computer viruses

Justin Balthrop, Matthew M. Williamson, M. E. J. Newman, Stephanie Forrest

arxiv:cs/0407048 v1 · 2004-07-19 · cs.NI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EG5CIDJ5LYZYXOCFUIZM6S3AYK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:24:45.335612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21ba240d3d5e338bb845a232cf4b60c29ab54aae1a823fe4e0713feafcaac356

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0407048 · arxiv_version: cs/0407048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0407048 · pith_short_12: EG5CIDJ5LYZY · pith_short_16: EG5CIDJ5LYZYXOCF · pith_short_8: EG5CIDJ5

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/EG5CIDJ5LYZYXOCFUIZM6S3AYK \
  | 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: 21ba240d3d5e338bb845a232cf4b60c29ab54aae1a823fe4e0713feafcaac356

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35fd680510d189522c318c006aa59c6490d645448296bc5cbb5ae795f5e53eeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-19T21:28:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01d4dcdf3c1d8c418aa1ddd5f1d170656a0bcf33b5e01474a92fc48892a0a04c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0407048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}