Pith Number

pith:3QMUSV3J

pith:2016:3QMUSV3JBVPY6H5S27M7WHVFJQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Peer provided cell-like networks built out of thin air

Andres Arcia-Moret, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Jon Crowcroft, Zafar Gilani

arxiv:1609.07643 v1 · 2016-09-24 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3QMUSV3JBVPY6H5S27M7WHVFJQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:55.820857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc194957690d5f8f1fb2d7d9fb1ea54c3653b040ec1ca6b07c1bba91f3df4be1

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07643 · arxiv_version: 1609.07643v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07643 · pith_short_12: 3QMUSV3JBVPY · pith_short_16: 3QMUSV3JBVPY6H5S · pith_short_8: 3QMUSV3J

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/3QMUSV3JBVPY6H5S27M7WHVFJQ \
  | 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: dc194957690d5f8f1fb2d7d9fb1ea54c3653b040ec1ca6b07c1bba91f3df4be1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a40c6323e1f960159b61e413994a3f74a320c40275ab0b8e8442847d3b161cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-24T16:32:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d040f70b17260023cb23a8ca4c682fe7e34bf87bdab52d753bf46864259700b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}