Pith Number

pith:CZXQ5C4N

pith:2017:CZXQ5C4NT6FLZXXYELNPVQECDZ

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Network Creation Games: Structure vs Anarchy

Arnau Messegu\'e, Carme \`Alvarez

arxiv:1706.09132 v2 · 2017-06-28 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CZXQ5C4NT6FLZXXYELNPVQECDZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:45.862452Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

166f0e8b8d9f8abcdef822dafac0821e479f217254294beafdd7b844a42e3bc1

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.09132 · arxiv_version: 1706.09132v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.09132 · pith_short_12: CZXQ5C4NT6FL · pith_short_16: CZXQ5C4NT6FLZXXY · pith_short_8: CZXQ5C4N

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/CZXQ5C4NT6FLZXXYELNPVQECDZ \
  | 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: 166f0e8b8d9f8abcdef822dafac0821e479f217254294beafdd7b844a42e3bc1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a9375b1b31e3c098160add81e301e7465b05be41c4429d8fe4efce37ba3852b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-28T06:12:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff2be9427b6d3f52838e6e82817496a606966ccda97cc35e19a9fae8764cf274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.09132",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}