Pith Number

pith:VTQQIEA5

pith:2012:VTQQIEA5A66IJZK6OFFBUKEI2M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prediction of Emerging Technologies Based on Analysis of the U.S. Patent Citation Network

Jan Tobochnik, Katherine Strandburg, Kinga Makovi, L\'aszl\'o Zal\'anyi, P\'eter \'Erdi, P\'eter Volf, Zolt\'an Somogyv\'ari

arxiv:1206.3933 v3 · 2012-06-18 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTQQIEA5A66IJZK6OFFBUKEI2M}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:03.916278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ace104101d07bc84e55e714a1a2888d32acdc16a8483607ea2f72ce612c51663

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3933 · arxiv_version: 1206.3933v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3933 · pith_short_12: VTQQIEA5A66I · pith_short_16: VTQQIEA5A66IJZK6 · pith_short_8: VTQQIEA5

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/VTQQIEA5A66IJZK6OFFBUKEI2M \
  | 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: ace104101d07bc84e55e714a1a2888d32acdc16a8483607ea2f72ce612c51663

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d3a79e0388d4e9e0b61e57cf79372aff424f208d86c92aae2f2acf154a82b62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-18T13:46:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "072a51b17484f50c2603db3f34cab4b725c4b5252d7991eb81df1b9506f9707e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3933",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}