Pith Number

pith:QA2XMCKY

pith:2004:QA2XMCKYWEBT7XSHKZKBENFDKO

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Where To Go and How To Go: a Theoretical Study of Different Leader Roles in Networked Systems

Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Wei Wang

arxiv:physics/0407121 v1 · 2004-07-23 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QA2XMCKYWEBT7XSHKZKBENFDKO}

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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	2026-07-04T14:44:21.718277Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8035760958b1033fde4756541234a3538c3ca0f7a8eebe5752e150dc389447a4

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0407121 · arxiv_version: physics/0407121v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0407121 · pith_short_12: QA2XMCKYWEBT · pith_short_16: QA2XMCKYWEBT7XSH · pith_short_8: QA2XMCKY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QA2XMCKYWEBT7XSHKZKBENFDKO \
  | 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: 8035760958b1033fde4756541234a3538c3ca0f7a8eebe5752e150dc389447a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "524acccead85481b69ebfdd55710b796385828b34762d9100fb70a1329a8a139",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-23T01:37:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf1a36f3418ae7eb67536603faed24bbff6525c99ea03e1e39306229690c1995"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0407121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}