Pith Number

pith:N5TGHBZU

pith:2012:N5TGHBZU56HPX4BQX64KHNND4W

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The Diffusion of Networking Technologies

Sharon Goldberg, Zhenming Liu

arxiv:1202.2928 v4 · 2012-02-14 · cs.SI · cs.DS · cs.NI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N5TGHBZU56HPX4BQX64KHNND4W}

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:17.862049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f66638734ef8efbf030bfb8a3b5a3e5b442466694c43ef40d7263f6bc2bedda

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2928 · arxiv_version: 1202.2928v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2928 · pith_short_12: N5TGHBZU56HP · pith_short_16: N5TGHBZU56HPX4BQ · pith_short_8: N5TGHBZU

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/N5TGHBZU56HPX4BQX64KHNND4W \
  | 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: 6f66638734ef8efbf030bfb8a3b5a3e5b442466694c43ef40d7263f6bc2bedda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5ac087cf5b23d889c3eb6560e6b8b7cf013500ea6ce808f9711febe8d686909",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.NI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-14T03:17:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "095599f5f79b51db4be717dd46547978ab0f440f76cf4ae58b7838e3e96d9f53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2928",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}