Pith Number

pith:MTGMNKQ7

pith:2011:MTGMNKQ73CX3KDJBHYH7H2WFUK

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Physics of traffic gridlock in a city

Boris S. Kerner

arxiv:1108.4310 v1 · 2011-08-22 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MTGMNKQ73CX3KDJBHYH7H2WFUK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:49.856838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64ccc6aa1fd8afb50d213e0ff3eac5a283e8a83056128e0f0363390212c0a9f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.4310 · arxiv_version: 1108.4310v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.4310 · pith_short_12: MTGMNKQ73CX3 · pith_short_16: MTGMNKQ73CX3KDJB · pith_short_8: MTGMNKQ7

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/MTGMNKQ73CX3KDJBHYH7H2WFUK \
  | 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: 64ccc6aa1fd8afb50d213e0ff3eac5a283e8a83056128e0f0363390212c0a9f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad65af1603a9ea6c6b8535cb515b1e89f5087d18dfd9b87ba04842798b362639",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-22T13:35:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4df806d897883f1e19d6b346d2da515a54e98441c77ee395be92d31a1941d0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.4310",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}