Pith Number

pith:LUUC3XYD

pith:2012:LUUC3XYDBT2CH45WOGCT3YY3DS

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The Theory of Crowd Capital

John Prpic, Prashant Shukla

arxiv:1210.2013 v1 · 2012-10-07 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LUUC3XYDBT2CH45WOGCT3YY3DS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:51.370742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d282ddf030cf423f3b671853de31b1c8baa4d223f4ed81444a3f2a3bee20ce3

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2013 · arxiv_version: 1210.2013v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2013 · pith_short_12: LUUC3XYDBT2C · pith_short_16: LUUC3XYDBT2CH45W · pith_short_8: LUUC3XYD

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/LUUC3XYDBT2CH45WOGCT3YY3DS \
  | 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: 5d282ddf030cf423f3b671853de31b1c8baa4d223f4ed81444a3f2a3bee20ce3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65f8dd9e01d8d13ddf4bfb99757f48de445279386ace9bd7615834b6496ef105",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-07T01:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16bf461540f657e08bc164a9d93eb90307cd61d48cc60470c93d4912c7fde2aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}