Pith Number

pith:NK4E335P

pith:2014:NK4E335PHXGBSTX2PV3S3UDXO2

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Characterizing Information Spreading in Online Social Networks

Ke Xu, Sai Zhang, Xi Chen, Xue Liu

arxiv:1404.5562 v3 · 2014-04-22 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NK4E335PHXGBSTX2PV3S3UDXO2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:28:54.054293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ab84defaf3dcc194efa7d772dd0777687a7f1c87730c7ad150c32245f728f7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5562 · arxiv_version: 1404.5562v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5562 · pith_short_12: NK4E335PHXGB · pith_short_16: NK4E335PHXGBSTX2 · pith_short_8: NK4E335P

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/NK4E335PHXGBSTX2PV3S3UDXO2 \
  | 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: 6ab84defaf3dcc194efa7d772dd0777687a7f1c87730c7ad150c32245f728f7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c211e983d28f93f5f93a34c4131e9f4aa247ad3566ebb1cf76811fbda44232e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-22T17:17:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f205651d1c03d4484496adcca156ad4b0d4482609ae38e857c35cf713df62c3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}