Pith Number

pith:B3ZA54JW

pith:2021:B3ZA54JW2RZK5UL4KDSAMBVOD3

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Preventing Extreme Polarization of Political Attitudes

Joshua J. Daymude, Robert Axelrod, Stephanie Forrest

arxiv:2103.06492 v2 · 2021-03-11 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B3ZA54JW2RZK5UL4KDSAMBVOD3}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T05:05:25.402190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ef20ef136d472aed17c50e40606ae1ecc1bea87f4e4ca5b857a21cb67af85a8

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.06492 · arxiv_version: 2103.06492v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.06492 · pith_short_12: B3ZA54JW2RZK · pith_short_16: B3ZA54JW2RZK5UL4 · pith_short_8: B3ZA54JW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B3ZA54JW2RZK5UL4KDSAMBVOD3 \
  | 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: 0ef20ef136d472aed17c50e40606ae1ecc1bea87f4e4ca5b857a21cb67af85a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f9bceeb12147f46467fc9b57cc982e2fd51b57872118b440458f8bb7ea936e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-11T06:41:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f283e40c8a2b579b41af3cdc45d9d219fc3726aef66a3f2bb67293dc566bae9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.06492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}