Pith Number

pith:XL4ECR72

pith:2017:XL4ECR72XH5JSZU2KDGHTZDJ2W

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Uncertainty Reduction for Stochastic Processes on Complex Networks

Claudio Castellano, Filippo Radicchi

arxiv:1703.03858 v2 · 2017-03-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{XL4ECR72XH5JSZU2KDGHTZDJ2W}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:09.253807Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

baf84147fab9fa99669a50cc79e469d5a9262752d5d2ebce957c6c52bfc94365

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03858 · arxiv_version: 1703.03858v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03858 · pith_short_12: XL4ECR72XH5J · pith_short_16: XL4ECR72XH5JSZU2 · pith_short_8: XL4ECR72

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XL4ECR72XH5JSZU2KDGHTZDJ2W \
  | 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: baf84147fab9fa99669a50cc79e469d5a9262752d5d2ebce957c6c52bfc94365

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c391ec14966ed86ff68052768e84a599d5b68bfc2b231f61a3f2832d3fe0fec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-10T22:25:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc3a8ab7693afd7ece30ea3aaa004ba9591bb2f955a8cec16cbc12325b95044a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}