Pith Number

pith:RGCBCHTX

pith:2013:RGCBCHTX3JSCWW7NLQXNVPMHYP

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Information slows down hierarchy growth

Agnieszka Czaplicka, Borja Minano, Janusz A. Holyst, Krzysztof Suchecki, Miquel Trias

arxiv:1311.4460 v2 · 2013-11-18 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGCBCHTX3JSCWW7NLQXNVPMHYP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:46:23.506008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8984111e77da642b5bed5c2edabd87c3fae6cb01964c7a3c22f0763070ab3314

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.4460 · arxiv_version: 1311.4460v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.4460 · pith_short_12: RGCBCHTX3JSC · pith_short_16: RGCBCHTX3JSCWW7N · pith_short_8: RGCBCHTX

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/RGCBCHTX3JSCWW7NLQXNVPMHYP \
  | 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: 8984111e77da642b5bed5c2edabd87c3fae6cb01964c7a3c22f0763070ab3314

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aae6f73a674d41aaf0a234ed8d8e0b13bf09f5f68f77d8d04eafd9c40652226",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-18T17:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e32611cdb506701d0132ae7938e7bcc79ed3e313884a2e5af60e87c888ab29c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.4460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}