Pith Number

pith:KGXABM2R

pith:2009:KGXABM2R36Z2P6BHBO3VIWBZVB

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A two-stage algorithm for extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks

Paul B. Slater

arxiv:0904.4863 v2 · 2009-04-30 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · physics.data-an · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KGXABM2R36Z2P6BHBO3VIWBZVB}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:52:12.722333Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51ae00b351dfb3a7f8270bb7545839a84b3633d86183e0ad4ea6c5374658bdf1

Aliases

arxiv: 0904.4863 · arxiv_version: 0904.4863v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.4863 · pith_short_12: KGXABM2R36Z2 · pith_short_16: KGXABM2R36Z2P6BH · pith_short_8: KGXABM2R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KGXABM2R36Z2P6BHBO3VIWBZVB \
  | 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: 51ae00b351dfb3a7f8270bb7545839a84b3633d86183e0ad4ea6c5374658bdf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86957ea41b944f36fd99299829d054d04b2e1cf511d8d451e1dfccf30dbfd486",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-04-30T15:29:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3c16127eb18fa280ed08557b89882bcf1d5e90ffff39e83ba165d2e30c4c1d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0904.4863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}