Pith Number

pith:JQNC2QIY

pith:2012:JQNC2QIY6XEDCPBZ3ZOPH5SEDD

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Your Two Weeks of Fame and Your Grandmother's

Alex Fabrikant, Andrew Tomkins, Atish Das Sarma, James Cook

arxiv:1204.4346 v1 · 2012-04-19 · cs.DL · cs.CL · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQNC2QIY6XEDCPBZ3ZOPH5SEDD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:57:27.721983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c1a2d4118f5c8313c39de5cf3f64418febc585ee6164ee0eb272932f14b84a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.4346 · arxiv_version: 1204.4346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.4346 · pith_short_12: JQNC2QIY6XED · pith_short_16: JQNC2QIY6XEDCPBZ · pith_short_8: JQNC2QIY

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/JQNC2QIY6XEDCPBZ3ZOPH5SEDD \
  | 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: 4c1a2d4118f5c8313c39de5cf3f64418febc585ee6164ee0eb272932f14b84a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fe9f5bc8df4f4ae5dbf1ab05d8015c9df364d98fef5f29eb4a07b078aa1a1ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-19T13:37:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b02dc61d6817210b70225967b1784c4b55f0ff9fba7a1092fd6b25b303807f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.4346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}