Pith Number

pith:VRJT4ZAH

pith:2015:VRJT4ZAHWMBREBJ3IPIELGR5Z3

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Epidemic Information Diffusion: A Simple Solution to Support Community-based Recommendations in P2P Overlays

Laura Ricci, Matteo Mordacchini, Patrizio Dazzi

arxiv:1503.03250 v2 · 2015-03-11 · cs.SI · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRJT4ZAHWMBREBJ3IPIELGR5Z3}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:49.185635Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac533e6407b30312053b43d0459a3dcefd4f86317133843664cb972d5a7cbaf0

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03250 · arxiv_version: 1503.03250v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03250 · pith_short_12: VRJT4ZAHWMBR · pith_short_16: VRJT4ZAHWMBREBJ3 · pith_short_8: VRJT4ZAH

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/VRJT4ZAHWMBREBJ3IPIELGR5Z3 \
  | 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: ac533e6407b30312053b43d0459a3dcefd4f86317133843664cb972d5a7cbaf0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f523ac36a4ef5aa5d64b0315673a5d29287766dd84581f37c1895c06204e970",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-11T09:55:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57b410a43c9b5b26d55e5a3ef5d5bfb79124b138e794000880a3cb328a0c0bab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03250",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}