Pith Number

pith:Q7O4HODP

pith:2005:Q7O4HODPCC3IIM5CX2MPJYIRBX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding the internet topology evolution dynamics

Shi Zhou

arxiv:cs/0512011 v3 · 2005-12-02 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q7O4HODPCC3IIM5CX2MPJYIRBX}

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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	2026-07-04T14:52:06.246342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87ddc3b86f10b68433a2be98f4e1110dfd65540b62321ce1648349a22b0d52e5

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0512011 · arxiv_version: cs/0512011v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0512011 · pith_short_12: Q7O4HODPCC3I · pith_short_16: Q7O4HODPCC3IIM5C · pith_short_8: Q7O4HODP

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/Q7O4HODPCC3IIM5CX2MPJYIRBX \
  | 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: 87ddc3b86f10b68433a2be98f4e1110dfd65540b62321ce1648349a22b0d52e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5149c965cca00e35da24c851351995908bc189fdeee80b70488ae552632ddf37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-02T18:24:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3ab8fcf994d83e703cb41fea5455951fa354b8f164802bd97baea3b7c58cc44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0512011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}