Pith Number

pith:FSG6RNN6

pith:2017:FSG6RNN6J2S57N3X6K524Y6CKX

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A physical model for efficient ranking in networks

Caterina De Bacco, Cristopher Moore, Daniel B. Larremore

arxiv:1709.09002 v4 · 2017-09-03 · physics.soc-ph · cs.LG · cs.SI · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FSG6RNN6J2S57N3X6K524Y6CKX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:21.852703Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c8de8b5be4ea5dfb777f2bbae63c255c72ce958261aec4ac06eb7a04983c531

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09002 · arxiv_version: 1709.09002v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09002 · pith_short_12: FSG6RNN6J2S5 · pith_short_16: FSG6RNN6J2S57N3X · pith_short_8: FSG6RNN6

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/FSG6RNN6J2S57N3X6K524Y6CKX \
  | 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: 2c8de8b5be4ea5dfb777f2bbae63c255c72ce958261aec4ac06eb7a04983c531

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a41c81393eb9a5cf659ac49555d3311f789a43d49db2ef86c66df38021b4e60e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-03T09:02:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c0c2eb0bc94e6355b6a83cd6e503fbd06fb62a1463e16934cef9367afaeb41a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}