Pith Number

pith:H324RWX6

pith:2017:H324RWX6PQT7HZYPECQ24AVKZM

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Network structure from rich but noisy data

M. E. J. Newman

arxiv:1703.07376 v2 · 2017-03-21 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H324RWX6PQT7HZYPECQ24AVKZM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:01.235734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ef5c8dafe7c27f3e70f20a1ae02aacb1bf3457aad2b3033d8e1dde816e43913

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07376 · arxiv_version: 1703.07376v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07376 · pith_short_12: H324RWX6PQT7 · pith_short_16: H324RWX6PQT7HZYP · pith_short_8: H324RWX6

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/H324RWX6PQT7HZYPECQ24AVKZM \
  | 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: 3ef5c8dafe7c27f3e70f20a1ae02aacb1bf3457aad2b3033d8e1dde816e43913

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52f614f039c7c9aae99792732d23ea78f61aac56c0e8d544ce8da342f2c3f75e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T18:20:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97c538484072826c3886c23700b36f28a5da089a947133d8de9e00a5cdc64f26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07376",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}