Pith Number

pith:ZIF4PQ75

pith:2010:ZIF4PQ75OHUSDO5OUEF57XAVHN

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Identifying the starting point of a spreading process in complex networks

Cesar Henrique Comin, Luciano da Fontoura Costa

arxiv:1003.3256 v3 · 2010-03-16 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZIF4PQ75OHUSDO5OUEF57XAVHN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:33.922964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca0bc7c3fd71e921bbaea10bdfdc153b6c2e35f307f4c44b9239347f0543c4a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.3256 · arxiv_version: 1003.3256v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.3256 · pith_short_12: ZIF4PQ75OHUS · pith_short_16: ZIF4PQ75OHUSDO5O · pith_short_8: ZIF4PQ75

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/ZIF4PQ75OHUSDO5OUEF57XAVHN \
  | 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: ca0bc7c3fd71e921bbaea10bdfdc153b6c2e35f307f4c44b9239347f0543c4a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30d583bffe41e72a15dbaa0ce42ccb99b86d9a4edc1b13b83c518796f13a5fba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-16T21:28:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b80ee066193ceef483373814e7c2a77f67aeb3356634741c12c3f895659e759"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.3256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}