Pith Number

pith:UGXDV7HL

pith:2016:UGXDV7HLNHT7246S43MGREBQQE

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On the statistical properties of viral misinformation in online social media

Alessandro Bessi

arxiv:1609.09435 v1 · 2016-09-29 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UGXDV7HLNHT7246S43MGREBQQE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:45.924478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1ae3afceb69e7fd73d2e6d86890308130d43a541b801188d54e14ec13a59347

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09435 · arxiv_version: 1609.09435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09435 · pith_short_12: UGXDV7HLNHT7 · pith_short_16: UGXDV7HLNHT7246S · pith_short_8: UGXDV7HL

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/UGXDV7HLNHT7246S43MGREBQQE \
  | 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: a1ae3afceb69e7fd73d2e6d86890308130d43a541b801188d54e14ec13a59347

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7571f2bd2e27b6b6780aadfe19e8f7d3a5fc0d20b1467244c07be725adda62e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-29T17:31:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c97d391a9bf29b3f8c6f68a546ba67713f902bade3857c1a4c9545e5fc01350e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}