Pith Number

pith:W367FJPD

pith:2017:W367FJPDXVVE6I3W7T3TKY3O3D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Message or the Messenger? Inferring Virality and Diffusion Structure from Online Petition Signature Data

Bryan Hooi, Chi Ling Chan, Justin Lai, Todd Davies

arxiv:1708.03472 v1 · 2017-08-11 · cs.CY · cs.SI · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W367FJPDXVVE6I3W7T3TKY3O3D}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:54.701020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6fdf2a5e3bd6a4f2376fcf735636ed8dc4743d161d24d9fa002156c3e668e2a

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03472 · arxiv_version: 1708.03472v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03472 · pith_short_12: W367FJPDXVVE · pith_short_16: W367FJPDXVVE6I3W · pith_short_8: W367FJPD

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/W367FJPDXVVE6I3W7T3TKY3O3D \
  | 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: b6fdf2a5e3bd6a4f2376fcf735636ed8dc4743d161d24d9fa002156c3e668e2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00c814f8886074d336904c99545071c1f004388b573b7c0daa1d720f68168c66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-11T08:43:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0d38d78f2c626e57a71ce7f3ffc31c3301ec21f319d7227f2608c109f4fb3a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}