Pith Number

pith:7Y6W6P33

pith:2026:7Y6W6P33O6ED5VEOCD55SCTZSW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

Ding Chen, Emilio Ferrara, Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao

arxiv:2605.18890 v1 · 2026-05-17 · physics.soc-ph · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7Y6W6P33O6ED5VEOCD55SCTZSW}

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:30.727079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe3d6f3f7b77883ed48e10fbd90a7995bc882b45d80888dfc37e8f5ae0d13d22

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18890 · arxiv_version: 2605.18890v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18890 · pith_short_12: 7Y6W6P33O6ED · pith_short_16: 7Y6W6P33O6ED5VEO · pith_short_8: 7Y6W6P33

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/7Y6W6P33O6ED5VEOCD55SCTZSW \
  | 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: fe3d6f3f7b77883ed48e10fbd90a7995bc882b45d80888dfc37e8f5ae0d13d22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d9e8f08cad454fd711255649592fc833405bc426ca131ce6b720f5020af41ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-17T00:21:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df0b47488ea3b8a0fc53fa5e3f7168c461765da557c2c76ff607b0337b8cc097"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18890",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}