Pith Number

pith:JWVY43VS

pith:2023:JWVY43VSNDDH5IVPUOMOUYKRE6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the information-theoretic formulation of network participation

Ben D. Fulcher, Dominic Agius, James M. Shine, Joseph T. Lizier, Oliver M. Cliff, Pavle Cajic

arxiv:2307.12556 v1 · 2023-07-24 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWVY43VSNDDH5IVPUOMOUYKRE6}

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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	2026-07-05T06:33:55.527431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4dab8e6eb268c67ea2afa398ea61512783c702875159ae6172d16c351355b7c6

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.12556 · arxiv_version: 2307.12556v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.12556 · pith_short_12: JWVY43VSNDDH · pith_short_16: JWVY43VSNDDH5IVP · pith_short_8: JWVY43VS

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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/JWVY43VSNDDH5IVPUOMOUYKRE6 \
  | 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: 4dab8e6eb268c67ea2afa398ea61512783c702875159ae6172d16c351355b7c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6e8e50e4326643f9e50981376d1ecc48e5c08be7e5042fcaf43b48e84f993ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-24T06:45:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08c2324aa014a92211245106e3ed8997b968439bd8bf8a38136c15422e19af63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.12556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}