Pith Number

pith:T6QLH2QS

pith:2025:T6QLH2QSGYHYP4URSUNDCQIUUP

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Meritocracy versus Matthew-effect: Two underlying network formation mechanisms of online social platforms

Ge Chen, Linyuan L\"u, Wenjun Mei, Yuchen Xu

arxiv:2510.27339 v1 · 2025-10-31 · cs.SI · eess.SP

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First computed	2026-06-08T16:04:55.521863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fa0b3ea12360f87f291951a314114a3e83c8fc58f913f4119f54e267e544d4f

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.27339 · arxiv_version: 2510.27339v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.27339 · pith_short_12: T6QLH2QSGYHY · pith_short_16: T6QLH2QSGYHYP4UR · pith_short_8: T6QLH2QS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T6QLH2QSGYHYP4URSUNDCQIUUP \
  | 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: 9fa0b3ea12360f87f291951a314114a3e83c8fc58f913f4119f54e267e544d4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cd9592276d7251da8968be8d6a545be72392b4d2cfc8d61281dbb925807f8a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "eess.SP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-31T10:18:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6331941b1b261125a73b98d16bf8c1a2209498b9a773bfd670903c80fa9888fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.27339",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}