Pith Number

pith:2KN5RIAC

pith:2018:2KN5RIACAQPEVLXQYITKGHUZDG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predicting the outcomes of policy diffusion from U.S. states to federal law

Aaron Clauset, Nora Connor

arxiv:1810.08988 v1 · 2018-10-21 · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2KN5RIACAQPEVLXQYITKGHUZDG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:41.295617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d29bd8a002041e4aaef0c226a31e9919874cb95e865e89e0f788587407a9f942

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.08988 · arxiv_version: 1810.08988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.08988 · pith_short_12: 2KN5RIACAQPE · pith_short_16: 2KN5RIACAQPEVLXQ · pith_short_8: 2KN5RIAC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2KN5RIACAQPEVLXQYITKGHUZDG \
  | 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: d29bd8a002041e4aaef0c226a31e9919874cb95e865e89e0f788587407a9f942

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba6d49797644e6f1ff5be53d7d94e76a272b86829a9f2419fa257f3176f65ed9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-21T16:51:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb0b26ee8d43638c56c735dd93751deee82df7730b0452a896bdb4a2b2a27c15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.08988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}