Pith Number

pith:MRTPVICM

pith:2002:MRTPVICM4DGF5HHYJAZWNY43R3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Transforming the World Wide Web into a Complexity-Based Semantic Network

A. Das, A. Probst, C. Gershenson, M.A. Porter, M. Marko

arxiv:cs/0205080 v2 · 2002-05-31 · cs.NI · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRTPVICM4DGF5HHYJAZWNY43R3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:24:18.174390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6466faa04ce0cc5e9cf8483366e39b8ec230f6631a5894249565a8b09af37fd5

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205080 · arxiv_version: cs/0205080v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205080 · pith_short_12: MRTPVICM4DGF · pith_short_16: MRTPVICM4DGF5HHY · pith_short_8: MRTPVICM

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/MRTPVICM4DGF5HHYJAZWNY43R3 \
  | 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: 6466faa04ce0cc5e9cf8483366e39b8ec230f6631a5894249565a8b09af37fd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a527aee22a5850969eedede7770d409bce7bb02b54a8435c9d59b4a61dd5f6ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-31T18:44:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1d637fd1c4f4e4e3d3b56cd22cd816a97fc142c33917ccb7110b7b6b4929410"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}