Pith Number

pith:SW5XSZNZ

pith:2012:SW5XSZNZT3SGU3K24W2RLWA5ZW

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Controlling complex networks: How much energy is needed?

Baowen Li, Choy-Heng Lai, Gang Yan, Jie Ren, Ying-Cheng Lai

arxiv:1204.2401 v2 · 2012-04-11 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SW5XSZNZT3SGU3K24W2RLWA5ZW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:54:47.516838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95bb7965b99ee46a6d5ae5b515d81dcd8df210b70312a12a08895f9823614a0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2401 · arxiv_version: 1204.2401v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2401 · pith_short_12: SW5XSZNZT3SG · pith_short_16: SW5XSZNZT3SGU3K2 · pith_short_8: SW5XSZNZ

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/SW5XSZNZT3SGU3K24W2RLWA5ZW \
  | 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: 95bb7965b99ee46a6d5ae5b515d81dcd8df210b70312a12a08895f9823614a0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ee7afa8ed95bbc7d2b89c9b40f5b5524384321afe7859cfbd695febeba71ca2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-11T10:28:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a73f58613e474891f58e7538112d6079996dd9ac3463cb4c6e8d86442bd40980"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}