Pith Number

pith:EVCNPF42

pith:2018:EVCNPF42MW4G2423B27ETFX6CD

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Modeling random walkers on growing random networks

Robert Ross, Walter Fontana

arxiv:1812.09568 v2 · 2018-12-22 · nlin.AO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EVCNPF42MW4G2423B27ETFX6CD}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:25.387714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2544d7979a65b86d735b0ebe4996fe10c065fecd5f04efca79bd4e0bf39a348c

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.09568 · arxiv_version: 1812.09568v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.09568 · pith_short_12: EVCNPF42MW4G · pith_short_16: EVCNPF42MW4G2423 · pith_short_8: EVCNPF42

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/EVCNPF42MW4G2423B27ETFX6CD \
  | 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: 2544d7979a65b86d735b0ebe4996fe10c065fecd5f04efca79bd4e0bf39a348c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec76ec3236b70b380950bd8b663e79a52ad03be5bb923f83690f674694d79460",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-22T17:21:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da9914938baf44b0b0ac7dd802b4d3d14378a7cd63dddc474fdc2b58e2514843"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.09568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}