Pith Number

pith:VJDP4JZT

pith:2013:VJDP4JZTZLDN6ACXK7FZIB3I4J

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The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor

A. Lima, M. De Domenico, M. Musolesi, P. Mougel

arxiv:1301.2952 v2 · 2013-01-14 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJDP4JZTZLDN6ACXK7FZIB3I4J}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:09:50.278301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa46fe2733cac6df005757cb940768e25d9e563a173bb1812ee06de075c83f07

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.2952 · arxiv_version: 1301.2952v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2952 · pith_short_12: VJDP4JZTZLDN · pith_short_16: VJDP4JZTZLDN6ACX · pith_short_8: VJDP4JZT

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/VJDP4JZTZLDN6ACXK7FZIB3I4J \
  | 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: aa46fe2733cac6df005757cb940768e25d9e563a173bb1812ee06de075c83f07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a263f532b32627851c597de00ecd8e6152b0b60e8e8bd112a7c0444ce2b9424",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-14T12:40:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d5708550513bf1ad0e8d82abf7c13568fe512a6bccabb563df3e79dccb2e635"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.2952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}