Pith Number

pith:Q3LF4LFK

pith:2017:Q3LF4LFKRHW75OH3IHX6BHV6ZI

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Statistical Inference in Political Networks Research

Bruce A. Desmarais, Skyler J. Cranmer

arxiv:1703.02870 v1 · 2017-03-08 · stat.AP · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3LF4LFKRHW75OH3IHX6BHV6ZI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:05.432042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86d65e2caa89edfeb8fb41efe09ebeca22d1f7032b0535d964a4b0834fef234f

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02870 · arxiv_version: 1703.02870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02870 · pith_short_12: Q3LF4LFKRHW7 · pith_short_16: Q3LF4LFKRHW75OH3 · pith_short_8: Q3LF4LFK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q3LF4LFKRHW75OH3IHX6BHV6ZI \
  | 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: 86d65e2caa89edfeb8fb41efe09ebeca22d1f7032b0535d964a4b0834fef234f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1e4ffd7b62959e9267feb960a1d71e0d43c0425aa235e30be644f1452391d95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-08T15:23:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34f191405206f594bffeac0dd3f34ae1f2b0336f22551a41b5d83d4bbb39996f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}