Pith Number

pith:JTPFWCMI

pith:2017:JTPFWCMIHIHBU4H3X4MY3IEQLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ex uno pluria: The Service-Infrastructure Cycle, Ossification, and the Fragmentation of the Internet

Mostafa H. Ammar

arxiv:1712.04379 v1 · 2017-12-12 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTPFWCMIHIHBU4H3X4MY3IEQLK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:08.192133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cde5b09883a0e1a70fbbf198da0905aa9c62f861ba76fcd6469728fb4b49270

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04379 · arxiv_version: 1712.04379v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04379 · pith_short_12: JTPFWCMIHIHB · pith_short_16: JTPFWCMIHIHBU4H3 · pith_short_8: JTPFWCMI

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/JTPFWCMIHIHBU4H3X4MY3IEQLK \
  | 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: 4cde5b09883a0e1a70fbbf198da0905aa9c62f861ba76fcd6469728fb4b49270

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "644364efbb6bff6dda5f2f7348fc1ecf73aa19f6f61245f50da1be8164c7308a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T16:36:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d47193531271eb6d54c1202049ae97ea9b21b365d838114d06b3ed4150cfb69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}