Pith Number

pith:NO4EM4QA

pith:2016:NO4EM4QAVCBI7JFKVVSXRSVA3Z

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Fundamental difference between superblockers and superspreaders in networks

Claudio Castellano, Filippo Radicchi

arxiv:1610.02908 v2 · 2016-10-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NO4EM4QAVCBI7JFKVVSXRSVA3Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:25.308922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bb8467200a8828fa4aaad6578caa0de4bd3f9ccb46684d8478c0a9383e7d332

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02908 · arxiv_version: 1610.02908v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02908 · pith_short_12: NO4EM4QAVCBI · pith_short_16: NO4EM4QAVCBI7JFK · pith_short_8: NO4EM4QA

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NO4EM4QAVCBI7JFKVVSXRSVA3Z \
  | 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: 6bb8467200a8828fa4aaad6578caa0de4bd3f9ccb46684d8478c0a9383e7d332

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9cdfe7782b444799f4be3349fa041d37e84ab95204dd985dcde5ac99ae1b1dc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-10T13:28:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aef62f3b30f9fcce209f898b40eb90ea5240b13156377bc69cc12f908b9b25d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}