Pith Number

pith:XGP6MJAS

pith:2015:XGP6MJASBEJRH7WE5NADPRXSHA

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Decay of Scale-Free Property in Birth-and-Death Network

Lez Rayman-Bacchus, Xiaojun Zhang, Zheng He

arxiv:1505.06783 v2 · 2015-05-26 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XGP6MJASBEJRH7WE5NADPRXSHA}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:36.654539Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b99fe62412091313fec4eb4037c6f238053bf51c1af80619d98be4598184e01a

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.06783 · arxiv_version: 1505.06783v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.06783 · pith_short_12: XGP6MJASBEJR · pith_short_16: XGP6MJASBEJRH7WE · pith_short_8: XGP6MJAS

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/XGP6MJASBEJRH7WE5NADPRXSHA \
  | 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: b99fe62412091313fec4eb4037c6f238053bf51c1af80619d98be4598184e01a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f69e24bbda66eb7489a140c93251b9360c132ad7333006c6dbac461c0a9ab2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-26T00:45:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e24ef99b7b22512c4d5437c165445b1a7056d427abae54cbd01facf4134b48ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.06783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}