Pith Number

pith:CK5W7DGQ

pith:2012:CK5W7DGQ4LZAIS54BQOGVNPIY5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Geographic Flow of Music

Conrad Lee, P\'adraig Cunningham

arxiv:1204.2677 v1 · 2012-04-12 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CK5W7DGQ4LZAIS54BQOGVNPIY5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:58:03.741164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12bb6f8cd0e2f2044bbc0c1c6ab5e8c74aecb2b6c18ea97c8c85b2deb24bff71

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2677 · arxiv_version: 1204.2677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2677 · pith_short_12: CK5W7DGQ4LZA · pith_short_16: CK5W7DGQ4LZAIS54 · pith_short_8: CK5W7DGQ

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/CK5W7DGQ4LZAIS54BQOGVNPIY5 \
  | 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: 12bb6f8cd0e2f2044bbc0c1c6ab5e8c74aecb2b6c18ea97c8c85b2deb24bff71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5d2c3994f6bb6741de5f35f62ce95e7001179dbe04213c3638b7a956a78ca0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-12T10:28:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3776bf1584539e6131c8258a9d10594ea900307d5dba02b50e6012855b704b7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}