Pith Number

pith:FOT43VEN

pith:2017:FOT43VENLWP3MLNIR6CMEG7W7F

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Observational Equivalence in System Estimation: Contractions in Complex Networks

Hamid R. Rabiee, Houman Zarrabi, Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian, Usman Khan

arxiv:1709.03846 v1 · 2017-09-12 · cs.SY · cs.MA · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FOT43VENLWP3MLNIR6CMEG7W7F}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:29.241669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ba7cdd48d5d9fb62da88f84c21bf6f96d8304fac0a4c7aa2901daf9e49a8c2a

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03846 · arxiv_version: 1709.03846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03846 · pith_short_12: FOT43VENLWP3 · pith_short_16: FOT43VENLWP3MLNI · pith_short_8: FOT43VEN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FOT43VENLWP3MLNIR6CMEG7W7F \
  | 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: 2ba7cdd48d5d9fb62da88f84c21bf6f96d8304fac0a4c7aa2901daf9e49a8c2a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T13:56:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7e288a61ae383dfad8ce1be4f72c9b2bf212622074f8a8184ae14c1fb1559e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}