Pith Number

pith:M2H37MDJ

pith:2014:M2H37MDJZGSGC2SHASKX62WNDI

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Locating Contagion Sources in Networks with Partial Timestamps

Kai Zhu, Lei Ying, Zhen Chen

arxiv:1412.4141 v1 · 2014-12-12 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M2H37MDJZGSGC2SHASKX62WNDI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:20.087282Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

668fbfb069c9a4616a4704957f6acd1a304519273c9093bcde1bfc2b41e65fba

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.4141 · arxiv_version: 1412.4141v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.4141 · pith_short_12: M2H37MDJZGSG · pith_short_16: M2H37MDJZGSGC2SH · pith_short_8: M2H37MDJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M2H37MDJZGSGC2SHASKX62WNDI \
  | 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: 668fbfb069c9a4616a4704957f6acd1a304519273c9093bcde1bfc2b41e65fba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a35f0297b8c9aba7dc91ad12ab255de18196dc411b1858314a4f1c666dbf4eab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-12T21:48:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13daabf45fabc86bef398d3351b85b6c0d36c24d57c67c281426630d7fb391f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.4141",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}