Pith Number

pith:ULD3HWLA

pith:2017:ULD3HWLA4G5WLLMX5DSQHX65TS

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Cascading collapse of online social networks

J\'anos Kert\'esz, J\'anos T\"or\"ok

arxiv:1712.03690 v2 · 2017-12-11 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ULD3HWLA4G5WLLMX5DSQHX65TS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:41.319754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2c7b3d960e1bb65ad97e8e503dfdd9c8d45b5016c07c5e5d0b1634420f95e8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03690 · arxiv_version: 1712.03690v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03690 · pith_short_12: ULD3HWLA4G5W · pith_short_16: ULD3HWLA4G5WLLMX · pith_short_8: ULD3HWLA

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/ULD3HWLA4G5WLLMX5DSQHX65TS \
  | 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: a2c7b3d960e1bb65ad97e8e503dfdd9c8d45b5016c07c5e5d0b1634420f95e8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a376fc5e27c4eefc8b616c9a167be63c6099aef0aa2c7f2621f766ad31cb62f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T09:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fea8e1b2416dce99cff49ab593dc48511bce262bb1cb63ed5e3c7e0125786a3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}