Pith Number

pith:PCGMR4WC

pith:2018:PCGMR4WC2QE762O76VP6B4BTUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Herding Positive, Complex Networks

Jeff S. Shamma, Magnus Egersted, Sebastian F. Ruf

arxiv:1804.04449 v2 · 2018-04-12 · cs.SY · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCGMR4WC2QE762O76VP6B4BTUI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:18.359737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

788cc8f2c2d409ff69dff55fe0f033a22fd33b4f1c11ef5c2b2d9c2e76ea56ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04449 · arxiv_version: 1804.04449v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04449 · pith_short_12: PCGMR4WC2QE7 · pith_short_16: PCGMR4WC2QE762O7 · pith_short_8: PCGMR4WC

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/PCGMR4WC2QE762O76VP6B4BTUI \
  | 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: 788cc8f2c2d409ff69dff55fe0f033a22fd33b4f1c11ef5c2b2d9c2e76ea56ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1e5352072e2600b1e30e7b7decf9c2f4660e852fc4fc9cf5074f2136c7154f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-12T11:56:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "791a2141d0082a2ac96a5b9caace6963f6f4fc0c84eabe1dff4748715bb5f578"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}