Pith Number

pith:RSXZUBHL

pith:2015:RSXZUBHLJAU2QUZDN3KZHD3L2G

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Disconnected, fragmented, or united? A trans-disciplinary review of network science

Cesar A. Hidalgo

arxiv:1511.03981 v4 · 2015-11-12 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RSXZUBHLJAU2QUZDN3KZHD3L2G}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:03.399793Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8caf9a04eb4829a853236ed5938f6bd1ac5e893ce6bf47d4a4255cf4a6771428

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03981 · arxiv_version: 1511.03981v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03981 · pith_short_12: RSXZUBHLJAU2 · pith_short_16: RSXZUBHLJAU2QUZD · pith_short_8: RSXZUBHL

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/RSXZUBHLJAU2QUZDN3KZHD3L2G \
  | 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: 8caf9a04eb4829a853236ed5938f6bd1ac5e893ce6bf47d4a4255cf4a6771428

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcfd38b61dce93bbd3a7fea485f19a9f622275912db08099c9ef7b5638fd3909",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-12T17:37:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07d1cf3afa6d4b582a44e257b2468873129bf07af2a102f3c6dbdcf3adf186b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03981",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}