Pith Number

pith:VLEW2RVG

pith:2018:VLEW2RVGEJRKLWQFKIIE62HXYW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Network assembly of scientific communities of varying size and specificity

Daniel T. Citron, Samuel F. Way

arxiv:1801.04898 v1 · 2018-01-15 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLEW2RVGEJRKLWQFKIIE62HXYW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:26:02.901204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aac96d46a62262a5da0552104f68f7c59bdcdc0aae84901639c7330b4bbd3d2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04898 · arxiv_version: 1801.04898v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04898 · pith_short_12: VLEW2RVGEJRK · pith_short_16: VLEW2RVGEJRKLWQF · pith_short_8: VLEW2RVG

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/VLEW2RVGEJRKLWQFKIIE62HXYW \
  | 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: aac96d46a62262a5da0552104f68f7c59bdcdc0aae84901639c7330b4bbd3d2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2aaed0585f8d6dfcf56b9c392bc0b15d422817967b4907fd88d6d89a995e488b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T18:15:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "269aeff1effffbb6049e5b841c3afe54cd9d1d7253b3724a7f592678faa8c8c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}