Pith Number

pith:GTORVG2Z

pith:2016:GTORVG2ZG6KWXEOK2OE343PV5R

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Preferential attachment combined with random number of choices

Yury Malyshkin

arxiv:1612.02229 v6 · 2016-12-07 · math.PR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GTORVG2ZG6KWXEOK2OE343PV5R}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:31:59.014401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34dd1a9b5937956b91cad389be6df5ec66c557a33f868206842e5356e88ba270

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02229 · arxiv_version: 1612.02229v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02229 · pith_short_12: GTORVG2ZG6KW · pith_short_16: GTORVG2ZG6KWXEOK · pith_short_8: GTORVG2Z

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/GTORVG2ZG6KWXEOK2OE343PV5R \
  | 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: 34dd1a9b5937956b91cad389be6df5ec66c557a33f868206842e5356e88ba270

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39afedea7256191161153d6f70cfe346d5037fdf4cc5d9e36206046e60f26c9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-07T12:47:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bb0b2c7e3ef38c82f10564f7174cc48189e44bdc927e052293d276bbb4d314f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}