Pith Number

pith:IV6X5MDH

pith:2011:IV6X5MDHHUFA224N425CIBRZSF

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Comparing the Topological and Electrical Structure of the North American Electric Power Infrastructure

Clayton Barrows, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Paul D. H. Hines, Seth Blumsack

arxiv:1105.0214 v3 · 2011-05-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IV6X5MDHHUFA224N425CIBRZSF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:51:42.710469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

457d7eb0673d0a0d6b8de6ba24063991790d217af0cccb76b3e72ce5da6bf621

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.0214 · arxiv_version: 1105.0214v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.0214 · pith_short_12: IV6X5MDHHUFA · pith_short_16: IV6X5MDHHUFA224N · pith_short_8: IV6X5MDH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IV6X5MDHHUFA224N425CIBRZSF \
  | 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: 457d7eb0673d0a0d6b8de6ba24063991790d217af0cccb76b3e72ce5da6bf621

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4178530ead656926b92c77ea04a6a8140d29d2d328991efb87b5f6a45b60a10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-01T22:10:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd0a21c77b0c292713f535432bd7f8b1ea06d1ba69489c6d0062bd944d55043a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.0214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}