Pith Number

pith:P2KFVX3Q

pith:2024:P2KFVX3QGB4RL2A5UWPMOCPV74

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recent Decade's Power Outage Data Reveals the Increasing Vulnerability of U.S. Power Infrastructure

Ali Mostafavi, Bo Li, Femi Omitaomu, Junwei Ma

arxiv:2408.15882 v2 · 2024-08-28 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P2KFVX3QGB4RL2A5UWPMOCPV74}

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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	2026-07-05T09:00:24.578075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e945adf70307915e81da59ec709f5ff2a319f7b8c7c863bbc6dd76067493b1b

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.15882 · arxiv_version: 2408.15882v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.15882 · pith_short_12: P2KFVX3QGB4R · pith_short_16: P2KFVX3QGB4RL2A5 · pith_short_8: P2KFVX3Q

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/P2KFVX3QGB4RL2A5UWPMOCPV74 \
  | 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: 7e945adf70307915e81da59ec709f5ff2a319f7b8c7c863bbc6dd76067493b1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51a7b0d5217b317430c60578507d77ab5593a9653765ca2e1ac12686cb554c15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-28T15:54:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca26c26a5b6552f02a147668eb15ca71f0c8af42417cb7b0cbcbac1c9eee8ce2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.15882",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}