Pith Number

pith:PMCVANQK

pith:2014:PMCVANQKIDMZJPOILFQSTVQ3O3

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Optimal network modularity for information diffusion

Alessandro Flammini, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Emilio Ferrara, Yong-Yeol Ahn

arxiv:1401.1257 v3 · 2014-01-07 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMCVANQKIDMZJPOILFQSTVQ3O3}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:37.226849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b0550360a40d994bdc8596129d61b76cf7d1cd66d79078a94e049183a5f582c

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1257 · arxiv_version: 1401.1257v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1257 · pith_short_12: PMCVANQKIDMZ · pith_short_16: PMCVANQKIDMZJPOI · pith_short_8: PMCVANQK

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/PMCVANQKIDMZJPOILFQSTVQ3O3 \
  | 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: 7b0550360a40d994bdc8596129d61b76cf7d1cd66d79078a94e049183a5f582c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b45b2994e86f505784e31eb2d190777bbd257319d77319fdb0e96692168aca0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-07T02:53:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "509cbb2f073c770d2ecf876090c72283479f60ab3a02c95f1502df06724d3f40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}