Pith Number

pith:IMZGKHQB

pith:2017:IMZGKHQBSYIBWJA2WNZ3OL4DIC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Society-in-the-Loop: Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract

Iyad Rahwan

arxiv:1707.07232 v2 · 2017-07-23 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMZGKHQBSYIBWJA2WNZ3OL4DIC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:54.251902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4332651e0196101b241ab373b72f834084cd41618166a6edd9289fdc4543f3bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.07232 · arxiv_version: 1707.07232v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.07232 · pith_short_12: IMZGKHQBSYIB · pith_short_16: IMZGKHQBSYIBWJA2 · pith_short_8: IMZGKHQB

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/IMZGKHQBSYIBWJA2WNZ3OL4DIC \
  | 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: 4332651e0196101b241ab373b72f834084cd41618166a6edd9289fdc4543f3bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2c2b41358bc05aa9a1485940d5c60f4b04960b968851290c61866b53442dbd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-23T00:03:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0475f22266290beb72b7397b5a359adbc0f29bf2730d10ebbf19076366a71cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.07232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}