Pith Number

pith:LF2PVOD3

pith:2018:LF2PVOD336LJ376KMPU32BNFC4

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Do Diffusion Protocols Govern Cascade Growth?

Bogdan State, David Liben-Nowell, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Justin Cheng, Karthik Subbian, Lada Adamic

arxiv:1805.07368 v1 · 2018-05-18 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LF2PVOD336LJ376KMPU32BNFC4}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:35.915876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5974fab87bdf969dffca63e9bd05a5171beb72e30f0b533aa969619f7a532399

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.07368 · arxiv_version: 1805.07368v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.07368 · pith_short_12: LF2PVOD336LJ · pith_short_16: LF2PVOD336LJ376K · pith_short_8: LF2PVOD3

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/LF2PVOD336LJ376KMPU32BNFC4 \
  | 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: 5974fab87bdf969dffca63e9bd05a5171beb72e30f0b533aa969619f7a532399

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2f8b44b186ca2c3dc8736402ad45c3f3b4549d5a3ca5055f70ef85a948fc099",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-18T18:02:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f700bd125a540ecc7bb27e8b5e403e8c9f88c2b6ce608c686e067d4ca1f7c839"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.07368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}