Pith Number

pith:3SEFOVEF

pith:2018:3SEFOVEFQUMNA4VSDAONRX7KNZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The statistical mechanics of Twitter

Gavin Hall, William Bialek

arxiv:1812.07029 v1 · 2018-12-17 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3SEFOVEFQUMNA4VSDAONRX7KNZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T00:36:17.686413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc885754858518d072b2181cd8dfea6e4fc13807bf0cbc0abf83d3450142533f

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.07029 · arxiv_version: 1812.07029v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.07029 · pith_short_12: 3SEFOVEFQUMN · pith_short_16: 3SEFOVEFQUMNA4VS · pith_short_8: 3SEFOVEF

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/3SEFOVEFQUMNA4VSDAONRX7KNZ \
  | 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: dc885754858518d072b2181cd8dfea6e4fc13807bf0cbc0abf83d3450142533f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "372c847d69a48e34e9260cb6cc8f3bc0723f17c00ac425f9a256bb59a5dbb638",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-17T19:59:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17040c5d8381098e84100ca848ae3c79d1f0dcd28b3c883b3719814a8b855b85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.07029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}