Pith Number

pith:YJA7WW6B

pith:2018:YJA7WW6BTEXBQ3UMHIYBLHQEXE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fake news propagate differently from real news even at early stages of spreading

Daqing Li, Hideki Takayasu, Jichang Zhao, Junjie Wu, Misako Takayasu, Orr levy, Shlomo Havlin, Yukie Sano, Zilong Zhao

arxiv:1803.03443 v3 · 2018-03-09 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YJA7WW6BTEXBQ3UMHIYBLHQEXE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:34.341154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c241fb5bc1992e186e8c3a30159e04b91dcef5d4b45668054576aee94ff9be17

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.03443 · arxiv_version: 1803.03443v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03443 · pith_short_12: YJA7WW6BTEXB · pith_short_16: YJA7WW6BTEXBQ3UM · pith_short_8: YJA7WW6B

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/YJA7WW6BTEXBQ3UMHIYBLHQEXE \
  | 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: c241fb5bc1992e186e8c3a30159e04b91dcef5d4b45668054576aee94ff9be17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "687a70e9b2d8d091f21ffd646ca8e822865fca733e133e8e0ea328a17f894dfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-09T10:04:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7ef95ca13b79c40cb5a2020ccffb466358b0884590d72844ef118bbd4b7faab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.03443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}