Pith Number

pith:FGY35T3Z

pith:2017:FGY35T3ZAQXQB33K2E2T5PXG2E

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Using Aggregated Relational Data to feasibly identify network structure without network data

Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Emily Breza, Mengjie Pan, Tyler H. McCormick

arxiv:1703.04157 v3 · 2017-03-12 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FGY35T3ZAQXQB33K2E2T5PXG2E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:05.861150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29b1becf79042f00ef6ad1353ebee6d11ace1a07b964df732bc53836f98d6760

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.04157 · arxiv_version: 1703.04157v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.04157 · pith_short_12: FGY35T3ZAQXQ · pith_short_16: FGY35T3ZAQXQB33K · pith_short_8: FGY35T3Z

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FGY35T3ZAQXQB33K2E2T5PXG2E \
  | 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: 29b1becf79042f00ef6ad1353ebee6d11ace1a07b964df732bc53836f98d6760

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26fb705b06910984de826b6e3a2b97098049c98c64c86d12235f899e3e492565",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-12T18:29:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f8bdfd3f8ca263138c9ca536edbf8afa6c73f352c97259f9b8830cf1cd21e05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.04157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}