Pith Number

pith:T65SXAVE

pith:2012:T65SXAVEX5JH7A7GMF5SSCJ46E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Visualising Virtual Communities: From Erd\H{o}s to the Arts

Jonathan P. Bowen, Robin J. Wilson

arxiv:1207.3420 v1 · 2012-07-14 · cs.CY · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T65SXAVEX5JH7A7GMF5SSCJ46E}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:01.205632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fbb2b82a4bf527f83e6617b29093cf110ee119d9933205eba5a42861669669c

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.3420 · arxiv_version: 1207.3420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.3420 · pith_short_12: T65SXAVEX5JH · pith_short_16: T65SXAVEX5JH7A7G · pith_short_8: T65SXAVE

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/T65SXAVEX5JH7A7GMF5SSCJ46E \
  | 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: 9fbb2b82a4bf527f83e6617b29093cf110ee119d9933205eba5a42861669669c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "266b498449123c7738724569a1782059ae109d9770360c8af2bf2989e1a1a5ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-14T12:55:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82b20f94c35e6d6e6309258fc1c9ac534ac8b2edc96121a1355307941d6b847f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.3420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}