Pith Number

pith:H3IK5ZJU

pith:2019:H3IK5ZJULJ6PBM3JN4T65D3PRF

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Uncovering Political Promotion in China: A Network Analysis of Patronage Relationship in Autocracy

Jason Luo, Xiyu Zhang, Zhengxuan Wu

arxiv:1902.00625 v1 · 2019-02-02 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H3IK5ZJULJ6PBM3JN4T65D3PRF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:52.637502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ed0aee5345a7cf0b3696f27ee8f6f8977fd3ad65785765f22f51310b0a43516

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.00625 · arxiv_version: 1902.00625v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.00625 · pith_short_12: H3IK5ZJULJ6P · pith_short_16: H3IK5ZJULJ6PBM3J · pith_short_8: H3IK5ZJU

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H3IK5ZJULJ6PBM3JN4T65D3PRF \
  | 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: 3ed0aee5345a7cf0b3696f27ee8f6f8977fd3ad65785765f22f51310b0a43516

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f759513d7c32daa9a62069b2757c18c542d27d27e3a318fa6510dc774d0d603b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-02T02:29:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f6330cc3d6a7a8dbbc9769cd6ba9bf02056bab0875b7ffe275fcdbf5e1348a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.00625",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}