Pith Number

pith:YYVHAN37

pith:2004:YYVHAN37DCI2QNDVQ5NHRQFPQT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accurately modeling the Internet topology

Raul J. Mondragon, Shi Zhou

arxiv:cs/0402011 v4 · 2004-02-05 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYVHAN37DCI2QNDVQ5NHRQFPQT}

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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	2026-07-04T15:52:29.013977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c62a70377f1891a83475875a78c0af84d38d9011dd1ca7b4367565e877a373d7

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0402011 · arxiv_version: cs/0402011v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0402011 · pith_short_12: YYVHAN37DCI2 · pith_short_16: YYVHAN37DCI2QNDV · pith_short_8: YYVHAN37

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/YYVHAN37DCI2QNDVQ5NHRQFPQT \
  | 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: c62a70377f1891a83475875a78c0af84d38d9011dd1ca7b4367565e877a373d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46ede941bfb836f822ca8a6fcccc0f4d52c86302674916a10eb267790e36e733",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2004-02-05T16:46:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed433f364a1b8cdce4473103a70803fd5f9e93cb4326432d15491784a2e01dd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0402011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}