Pith Number

pith:AJL25DYF

pith:2025:AJL25DYFIFICSKTGAAKTSG7PSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse

Mark J. Hill

arxiv:2506.01642 v2 · 2025-06-02 · cs.SI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJL25DYFIFICSKTGAAKTSG7PSC}

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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	2026-07-05T11:16:35.878556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0257ae8f054150292a660015391bef909e6791122f0e3d816db75193d87b8eb0

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.01642 · arxiv_version: 2506.01642v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.01642 · pith_short_12: AJL25DYFIFIC · pith_short_16: AJL25DYFIFICSKTG · pith_short_8: AJL25DYF

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/AJL25DYFIFICSKTGAAKTSG7PSC \
  | 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: 0257ae8f054150292a660015391bef909e6791122f0e3d816db75193d87b8eb0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d44ac54490c7c6cc3d65ed89ecb45e47065acac57f876f1d3e5a31b1f65eac0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-02T13:16:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dfbfc5b1e218ea753dd4657a62f0d657d575996e409ac7ff075567c84e6a178"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.01642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}