Pith Number

pith:VPPBZFJK

pith:2013:VPPBZFJKRUQUBULYJV3465OPEZ

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The Community Structure of the Global Corporate Network

Stefania Vitali, Stefano Battiston

arxiv:1301.2363 v1 · 2013-01-11 · q-fin.GN · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPPBZFJKRUQUBULYJV3465OPEZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:13.615564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abde1c952a8d2140d1784d77cf75cf2641f3163ee3ff819a2f85537620bfdc7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.2363 · arxiv_version: 1301.2363v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2363 · pith_short_12: VPPBZFJKRUQU · pith_short_16: VPPBZFJKRUQUBULY · pith_short_8: VPPBZFJK

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/VPPBZFJKRUQUBULYJV3465OPEZ \
  | 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: abde1c952a8d2140d1784d77cf75cf2641f3163ee3ff819a2f85537620bfdc7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a2b203b09c5efe5352a4efe59ce3c74f6ef91904c35f59f9068723607e1b686",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-11T00:18:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4071f9bc33ba3f5d7a8c3deb3c74a15097f4fc0c5328d760e3d65faf703afed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.2363",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}