Pith Number

pith:RBSLVDUS

pith:2015:RBSLVDUSDWQURRG2VGRKZJXXFF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring Partial Balance in Signed Networks

Mark C. Wilson, Samin Aref

arxiv:1509.04037 v6 · 2015-09-14 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RBSLVDUSDWQURRG2VGRKZJXXFF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:51.281654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8864ba8e921da148c4daa9a2aca6f729403391682543e8c16b0a1c1d1dd734f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.04037 · arxiv_version: 1509.04037v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.04037 · pith_short_12: RBSLVDUSDWQU · pith_short_16: RBSLVDUSDWQURRG2 · pith_short_8: RBSLVDUS

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/RBSLVDUSDWQURRG2VGRKZJXXFF \
  | 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: 8864ba8e921da148c4daa9a2aca6f729403391682543e8c16b0a1c1d1dd734f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e8f216783cbb20ba2ce9ade609cf4458d1e8a7e8fefe13ff0e2648fa174069b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-14T11:23:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02fd642c8a4e5faf411c808f91c5654903f3d332f0da71e97479ff03fe98f7ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.04037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}