Pith Number

pith:U5PGZBLN

pith:2015:U5PGZBLNTTK6RFV4KM3IZ73NGV

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Tracking Idea Flows between Social Groups

Jiannan Xiao, Shixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Yangqiu Song, Yangxin Zhong

arxiv:1512.04036 v1 · 2015-12-13 · cs.SI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5PGZBLNTTK6RFV4KM3IZ73NGV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:23.282815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a75e6c856d9cd5e896bc53368cff6d3553cca5efb2cd94e24cac1c6de6d3cb23

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.04036 · arxiv_version: 1512.04036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.04036 · pith_short_12: U5PGZBLNTTK6 · pith_short_16: U5PGZBLNTTK6RFV4 · pith_short_8: U5PGZBLN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U5PGZBLNTTK6RFV4KM3IZ73NGV \
  | 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: a75e6c856d9cd5e896bc53368cff6d3553cca5efb2cd94e24cac1c6de6d3cb23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b61e1c7da3ce87556ff6aae90639a9e84dd50d4b20b58f66c0afc8fbca0332d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-13T11:33:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9947498dde5f00f13507fdf894a3079dd7def5540a4e92b389230bc82ad2b65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.04036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}