Pith Number

pith:ZUAB46CR

pith:2014:ZUAB46CR36LNO75VKE5EE35OFT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The clash of the Titans: how preferential attachment helps the survival of the smallest

Anita Mehta, Suman Aich

arxiv:1403.7967 v1 · 2014-03-31 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZUAB46CR36LNO75VKE5EE35OFT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:21.216907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd001e7851df96d77fb5513a426fae2cd083b2c29efd677b7cd97adbe2fee3b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.7967 · arxiv_version: 1403.7967v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.7967 · pith_short_12: ZUAB46CR36LN · pith_short_16: ZUAB46CR36LNO75V · pith_short_8: ZUAB46CR

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/ZUAB46CR36LNO75VKE5EE35OFT \
  | 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: cd001e7851df96d77fb5513a426fae2cd083b2c29efd677b7cd97adbe2fee3b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0dd8416f457cfb7bbad484bea633aae426b35c230f649c80a0457e1a65d9fdb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-31T12:22:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "428e2340e7e4e525af5ccbc2c78f23e2666c78c618bbb7e9ef87e70d3d994fa6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.7967",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}