Pith Number

pith:BX4G35TG

pith:2017:BX4G35TGMQELKERDT2346KUZST

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How Do People Differ? A Social Media Approach

Vincent Wong, Yaneer Bar-Yam

arxiv:1708.02900 v1 · 2017-08-09 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · nlin.AO · physics.data-an · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX4G35TGMQELKERDT2346KUZST}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:19.172332Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0df86df6666408b512239eb7cf2a9994d937eb82ab74bef6a82b7fa808e38fbc

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02900 · arxiv_version: 1708.02900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02900 · pith_short_12: BX4G35TGMQEL · pith_short_16: BX4G35TGMQELKERD · pith_short_8: BX4G35TG

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/BX4G35TGMQELKERDT2346KUZST \
  | 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: 0df86df6666408b512239eb7cf2a9994d937eb82ab74bef6a82b7fa808e38fbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69698d6c3594162c1c9b6df35e87aa59d13ec77dec10f70e930f771f03af6c57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-09T16:30:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebe1b0cad1c2e584ba14cfc54489f472e27380ae5e3961949d38ffb66e7d1991"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}