Pith Number

pith:ZRSJBTZL

pith:2011:ZRSJBTZLJOWHKISVQCAYYSUGR3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What Stops Social Epidemics?

Greg Ver Steeg, Kristina Lerman, Rumi Ghosh

arxiv:1102.1985 v3 · 2011-02-09 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZRSJBTZLJOWHKISVQCAYYSUGR3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:12.760895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc6490cf2b4bac75225580818c4a868efbefbdf4e57340438e7f129e093ddff7

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1985 · arxiv_version: 1102.1985v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1985 · pith_short_12: ZRSJBTZLJOWH · pith_short_16: ZRSJBTZLJOWHKISV · pith_short_8: ZRSJBTZL

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/ZRSJBTZLJOWHKISVQCAYYSUGR3 \
  | 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: cc6490cf2b4bac75225580818c4a868efbefbdf4e57340438e7f129e093ddff7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "22264efadc8d7576341fcb354a4bfde16a2a9ced2c8cde712eaa17adce8a4270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-09T21:12:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04fa15aad78376341db437bad81950383c7c713f8773683fff071321b0174603"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}