Pith Number

pith:MCHC5EEQ

pith:2017:MCHC5EEQZXNT6VK2NJAZ42QHUU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information

Alessandro Flammini, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Diego F. M. Oliveira, Filippo Menczer, Xiaoyan Qiu

arxiv:1701.02694 v4 · 2017-01-10 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MCHC5EEQZXNT6VK2NJAZ42QHUU}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:56:35.182404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

608e2e9090cddb3f555a6a419e6a07a525e653fa405523ebb40223838c04fb13

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.02694 · arxiv_version: 1701.02694v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.02694 · pith_short_12: MCHC5EEQZXNT · pith_short_16: MCHC5EEQZXNT6VK2 · pith_short_8: MCHC5EEQ

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/MCHC5EEQZXNT6VK2NJAZ42QHUU \
  | 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: 608e2e9090cddb3f555a6a419e6a07a525e653fa405523ebb40223838c04fb13

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05d534d8890b54038487ae501d2ff66fced1d525dbb87efc10fb63923e06a727",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-10T17:16:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2cbc01a399efcf3635409be1f8f3e45db9bd91a6dceebce506e67ce707cb1bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.02694",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}