Pith Number

pith:Q3EOKPKN

pith:2017:Q3EOKPKNA7LZG2OECIX3IPUQPT

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The Rise and Fall of Network Stars: Analyzing 2.5 million graphs to reveal how high-degree vertices emerge over time

Carlos Guestrin, Michael Fire

arxiv:1706.06690 v3 · 2017-06-20 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{Q3EOKPKNA7LZG2OECIX3IPUQPT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:29.652120Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86c8e53d4d07d79369c4122fb43e907cd949b2eb1f24e70fa0680ae63c27ef00

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06690 · arxiv_version: 1706.06690v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06690 · pith_short_12: Q3EOKPKNA7LZ · pith_short_16: Q3EOKPKNA7LZG2OE · pith_short_8: Q3EOKPKN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q3EOKPKNA7LZG2OECIX3IPUQPT \
  | 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: 86c8e53d4d07d79369c4122fb43e907cd949b2eb1f24e70fa0680ae63c27ef00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "feb4f830a3245e1488f6a36df311acb924b257d702a93d577718ad5f9ee073bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-20T22:28:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73a5c80ed50acb389f1697f1de15dacc2ba899a604830ea4a953f7b8e22270af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}