Pith Number

pith:USZNVOSC

pith:2016:USZNVOSCTA5A2EYX6FOZ2KK4WP

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Loss of information in feedforward social networks

Kevin E. Bassler, Kresimir Josic, Manisha Bhardwaj, Simon Stolarczyk, Wei Ji Ma

arxiv:1609.09529 v1 · 2016-09-26 · stat.ME · cs.SI · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USZNVOSCTA5A2EYX6FOZ2KK4WP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:39.291403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4b2daba42983a0d1317f15d9d295cb3d63bb3fad84ca14dd61664f366e376f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09529 · arxiv_version: 1609.09529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09529 · pith_short_12: USZNVOSCTA5A · pith_short_16: USZNVOSCTA5A2EYX · pith_short_8: USZNVOSC

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/USZNVOSCTA5A2EYX6FOZ2KK4WP \
  | 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: a4b2daba42983a0d1317f15d9d295cb3d63bb3fad84ca14dd61664f366e376f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f988b799c1f824e2a924ee71b3a66626c06796aece5d9c6aa20ed7ce82abca95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-26T22:57:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20e970f8f46706c564b5852f7e1113515356eccca36089f1f9d17d075cae6297"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}