Pith Number

pith:M3NJ4N4L

pith:2018:M3NJ4N4LGFOZ5RJVOE4NKY3CAB

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Decay of Relevance in Exponentially Growing Networks

Fariba Karimi, Jun Sun, Steffen Staab

arxiv:1804.02950 v1 · 2018-04-09 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3NJ4N4LGFOZ5RJVOE4NKY3CAB}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:57.867543Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66da9e378b315d9ec5357138d563620048aacadebece4405982e739916abd6c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.02950 · arxiv_version: 1804.02950v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.02950 · pith_short_12: M3NJ4N4LGFOZ · pith_short_16: M3NJ4N4LGFOZ5RJV · pith_short_8: M3NJ4N4L

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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/M3NJ4N4LGFOZ5RJVOE4NKY3CAB \
  | 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: 66da9e378b315d9ec5357138d563620048aacadebece4405982e739916abd6c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed1f2195c2f1b887b738fa8cb5bbbe3c2bde911156ae0e88080d3372e92bbe5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-09T12:57:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f620af6ef136737b214426ca0f8320e5f7aaf4cdb9ada18226907f1a248f18af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.02950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}