Pith Number

pith:QY6QMDJ4

pith:2011:QY6QMDJ4LFZ3USCB5IKUILQCKP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finding Rumor Sources on Random Trees

Devavrat Shah, Tauhid Zaman

arxiv:1110.6230 v3 · 2011-10-28 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QY6QMDJ4LFZ3USCB5IKUILQCKP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:28:06.336701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

863d060d3c5973ba4841ea15442e0253fd232824773572e705dfbf35a07e8205

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.6230 · arxiv_version: 1110.6230v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.6230 · pith_short_12: QY6QMDJ4LFZ3 · pith_short_16: QY6QMDJ4LFZ3USCB · pith_short_8: QY6QMDJ4

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/QY6QMDJ4LFZ3USCB5IKUILQCKP \
  | 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: 863d060d3c5973ba4841ea15442e0253fd232824773572e705dfbf35a07e8205

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1def5e9c7133847a3902a3e75d8eecbab2b49d5abc35cf07961f6c323678abc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-28T01:39:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "919071cb1720e6156e1561860733996c08cc910e31af64c948142d8265cd7e04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.6230",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}