Pith Number

pith:I4UV34RY

pith:2018:I4UV34RYO6XKCT3WI3OUM7UNP2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Incentivizing the Dissemination of Truth Versus Fake News in Social Networks

Abbas Ehsanfar, Mo Mansouri

arxiv:1804.02509 v1 · 2018-04-07 · cs.SI · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4UV34RYO6XKCT3WI3OUM7UNP2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:59.280030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47295df23877aea14f7646dd467e8d7e8b72fc978d859bd25166fa7c3a92d806

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.02509 · arxiv_version: 1804.02509v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.02509 · pith_short_12: I4UV34RYO6XK · pith_short_16: I4UV34RYO6XKCT3W · pith_short_8: I4UV34RY

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/I4UV34RYO6XKCT3WI3OUM7UNP2 \
  | 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: 47295df23877aea14f7646dd467e8d7e8b72fc978d859bd25166fa7c3a92d806

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "446f029c0b3ca76c6a6f8abaff0d156ad1a8fbbf8ff77f28d02cdf7e71ad2ac1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-07T04:46:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52de9c89a31aa0e3164f31fbdb0b69df4030d9eda629f5527d2c6bc8a0fb3261"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.02509",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}