Pith Number

pith:RBR3DCMX

pith:2018:RBR3DCMX5ARBSV33AP5QAUDOGG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The structured backbone of temporal social ties

Alain Barrat, Taro Takaguchi, Teruyoshi Kobayashi

arxiv:1804.08828 v2 · 2018-04-24 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RBR3DCMX5ARBSV33AP5QAUDOGG}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:25.062441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8863b18997e82219577b03fb00506e31a1add6c02accd6f450ac1a677afe78e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08828 · arxiv_version: 1804.08828v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08828 · pith_short_12: RBR3DCMX5ARB · pith_short_16: RBR3DCMX5ARBSV33 · pith_short_8: RBR3DCMX

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/RBR3DCMX5ARBSV33AP5QAUDOGG \
  | 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: 8863b18997e82219577b03fb00506e31a1add6c02accd6f450ac1a677afe78e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d7c63ccd8a75450e534153f928bcb0df13746b60d722fcbf79265e76201fae6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-24T03:19:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ad9cec214821af403669ca12af52da805a83d38638738e1a4c8ca1a65dbdef3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08828",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}