Pith Number

pith:3CT3P32C

pith:2026:3CT3P32CYOCFFYJEUS53I7LASE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets

Dalton C. Conley, Hannah Rubin, Lucas Gautheron, Mike D. Schneider, Nori Jacoby, Ofer Tchernichovski, Raja Marjieh, Seth Frey

arxiv:2602.09997 v2 · 2026-02-10 · cs.SI · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3CT3P32CYOCFFYJEUS53I7LASE}

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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	2026-06-08T01:05:07.341886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8a7b7ef42c38452e124a4bbb47d6091017477eb89da9e945eeb2879cbc94eaa

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.09997 · arxiv_version: 2602.09997v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.09997 · pith_short_12: 3CT3P32CYOCF · pith_short_16: 3CT3P32CYOCFFYJE · pith_short_8: 3CT3P32C

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/3CT3P32CYOCFFYJEUS53I7LASE \
  | 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: d8a7b7ef42c38452e124a4bbb47d6091017477eb89da9e945eeb2879cbc94eaa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78b7789afe187a3abe95855e5c4f200466316bfe72de6baf06f3e27b6a588ed3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-10T17:20:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "104cce8a7ef6b8e1a78f9dd0193d6af08860f26082f34b611bf70d773f275235"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.09997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}