Pith Number

pith:YRECBJ47

pith:2018:YRECBJ47RLWNBEVAZK7XUOEKX7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding and forecasting lifecycle events in information cascades

Paulo Shakarian, Ruocheng Guo, Soumajyoti Sarkar

arxiv:1809.06050 v2 · 2018-09-17 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YRECBJ47RLWNBEVAZK7XUOEKX7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T00:49:34.408580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c44820a79f8aecd092a0cabf7a388abfd220e74e677b6ff12f6e0fcce05126bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.06050 · arxiv_version: 1809.06050v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.06050 · pith_short_12: YRECBJ47RLWN · pith_short_16: YRECBJ47RLWNBEVA · pith_short_8: YRECBJ47

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/YRECBJ47RLWNBEVAZK7XUOEKX7 \
  | 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: c44820a79f8aecd092a0cabf7a388abfd220e74e677b6ff12f6e0fcce05126bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f06de0cf404e47440ac09b6ce5e09319473373f69bba0e67a1c1370576fde525",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-17T07:24:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd2a2c62f3cb4a5ca28193fcb92c2d4103b927f521858a98abf75d3016517641"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.06050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}