Pith Number

pith:Y2CGCFU7

pith:2017:Y2CGCFU7RHLIPEQAGMNKBYYOQR

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Process reveals structure: How a network is traversed mediates expectations about its architecture

Ari E. Kahn, Danielle S. Bassett, Elisabeth A. Karuza, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

arxiv:1702.00101 v1 · 2017-02-01 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2CGCFU7RHLIPEQAGMNKBYYOQR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:35.214183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c68461169f89d6879200331aa0e30e8463d1afdf9261c25e8e7000ad896376f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00101 · arxiv_version: 1702.00101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00101 · pith_short_12: Y2CGCFU7RHLI · pith_short_16: Y2CGCFU7RHLIPEQA · pith_short_8: Y2CGCFU7

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/Y2CGCFU7RHLIPEQAGMNKBYYOQR \
  | 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: c68461169f89d6879200331aa0e30e8463d1afdf9261c25e8e7000ad896376f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "175626b5e3db3e1db40e948e1122bc99d47327fb98ee09fb1de8a5b48521d6f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-01T01:33:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e809dcb4aeafa7960e3c574e73ac299dcaa4622ba8ba6316c75688db9d1bf530"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}