Pith Number

pith:VKR6BFVJ

pith:2017:VKR6BFVJERFBF4ODAVHDPMD255

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The quoter model: a paradigmatic model of the social flow of written information

James P. Bagrow, Lewis Mitchell

arxiv:1711.00326 v2 · 2017-11-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.IT · cs.SI · math.IT · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKR6BFVJERFBF4ODAVHDPMD255}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:54.801235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaa3e096a9244a12f1c3054e37b07aef6496a1413f4cc7e8debb6752536a85ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00326 · arxiv_version: 1711.00326v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00326 · pith_short_12: VKR6BFVJERFB · pith_short_16: VKR6BFVJERFBF4OD · pith_short_8: VKR6BFVJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKR6BFVJERFBF4ODAVHDPMD255 \
  | 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: aaa3e096a9244a12f1c3054e37b07aef6496a1413f4cc7e8debb6752536a85ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b38f8767726f7a230d86763cfcbfb4c31f8665e2e33175e8ff56998a2c9c2b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.SI",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-01T13:07:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1607724d2060f43faf943b63d047d7992fba0ecc95946ca92b84a76cc0a7b367"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}