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pith:PHG5HRPL

pith:2018:PHG5HRPLNQ6C4LH74VG674SWL6
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Relatives in the same university faculty: nepotism or merit?

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati, Giovanni Abramo

arxiv:1810.13234 v1 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DL

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\pithnumber{PHG5HRPLNQ6C4LH74VG674SWL6}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:01:51.839594Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79cdd3c5eb6c3c2e2cffe54deff2565fb3be9dc2da0e480c28f3f4ca696ce2a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.13234 · arxiv_version: 1810.13234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.13234 · pith_short_12: PHG5HRPLNQ6C · pith_short_16: PHG5HRPLNQ6C4LH7 · pith_short_8: PHG5HRPL
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PHG5HRPLNQ6C4LH74VG674SWL6 \
  | 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: 79cdd3c5eb6c3c2e2cffe54deff2565fb3be9dc2da0e480c28f3f4ca696ce2a0
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca94d2cf9d4222732369c17224607c08883f8e0ed76249db8085d0708167be34",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T16:02:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e678e0b487477bd37b37faec7f5065a584ffc439f3518062e1c13b4eac9d3e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.13234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}