Pith Number

pith:EQQN7XFN

pith:2024:EQQN7XFNFBH3GI5GZR4UMGLRZP

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On the Centralization and Regionalization of the Web

Gautam Akiwate, Kimberly Ruth, Rumaisa Habib, Zakir Durumeric

arxiv:2406.19569 v2 · 2024-06-27 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EQQN7XFNFBH3GI5GZR4UMGLRZP}

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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	2026-07-05T10:54:34.513537Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2420dfdcad284fb323a6cc79461971cbd853d3428679b0e54a51c78b3bd8c2e4

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.19569 · arxiv_version: 2406.19569v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.19569 · pith_short_12: EQQN7XFNFBH3 · pith_short_16: EQQN7XFNFBH3GI5G · pith_short_8: EQQN7XFN

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/EQQN7XFNFBH3GI5GZR4UMGLRZP \
  | 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: 2420dfdcad284fb323a6cc79461971cbd853d3428679b0e54a51c78b3bd8c2e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c561822eaf24af1fea043349aa01a4e52ee74361d3c182fc24b15d439adac04e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-27T23:06:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee86b5c74f523a023e6920e2c2fec7f1f8fd5de49d0dab8fb0be52f0abe827ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.19569",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}