Pith Number

pith:CBV6YMS2

pith:2017:CBV6YMS236PAODFCWBLMUURRPZ

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Specialization Models of Network Growth

B. Z. Webb, D. C. Smith, L. A. Bunimovich

arxiv:1712.01788 v1 · 2017-12-05 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · math.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CBV6YMS236PAODFCWBLMUURRPZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:47.532594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

106bec325adf9e070ca2b056ca52317e77d8376957e441aea71049b42ffa27fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01788 · arxiv_version: 1712.01788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01788 · pith_short_12: CBV6YMS236PA · pith_short_16: CBV6YMS236PAODFC · pith_short_8: CBV6YMS2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CBV6YMS236PAODFCWBLMUURRPZ \
  | 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: 106bec325adf9e070ca2b056ca52317e77d8376957e441aea71049b42ffa27fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8305b9cc6f97ff434684f4497c97614ad47b7ed59b4acd6dae701272c46885a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "math.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T18:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8df8f71efb96a35912cd75fc62772bc9fce2316a1a626c693559aaf6d8ef778"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}