Pith Number

pith:VLMO3JL3

pith:2018:VLMO3JL3QHBWO43UYWIWJTU4AS

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Estimating network structure from unreliable measurements

M. E. J. Newman

arxiv:1803.02427 v2 · 2018-03-06 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLMO3JL3QHBWO43UYWIWJTU4AS}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:10.482656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aad8eda57b81c3677374c59164ce9c048201769b3a3c4fb780d4f3a96103751e

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.02427 · arxiv_version: 1803.02427v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.02427 · pith_short_12: VLMO3JL3QHBW · pith_short_16: VLMO3JL3QHBWO43U · pith_short_8: VLMO3JL3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLMO3JL3QHBWO43UYWIWJTU4AS \
  | 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: aad8eda57b81c3677374c59164ce9c048201769b3a3c4fb780d4f3a96103751e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93638241aed6ad319e11c205da85e7d4645314a8536be90a72860e2993a6c7c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-06T21:14:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9177df870564e104d58353579b0ae27910cc5f1129f624b538e50e3fa70976d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.02427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}