Pith Number

pith:MSNGLN5Y

pith:2014:MSNGLN5YNILRSZRQLANL7NAA7A

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Physical forces between humans and how humans attract and repel each other based on their social interactions in an online world

Benedikt Fuchs, Stefan Thurner

arxiv:1412.2958 v1 · 2014-12-09 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSNGLN5YNILRSZRQLANL7NAA7A}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:47.243623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

649a65b7b86a17196630581abfb400f827aac4dfa91b3b48b94d8b57c3f4753d

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2958 · arxiv_version: 1412.2958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2958 · pith_short_12: MSNGLN5YNILR · pith_short_16: MSNGLN5YNILRSZRQ · pith_short_8: MSNGLN5Y

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/MSNGLN5YNILRSZRQLANL7NAA7A \
  | 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: 649a65b7b86a17196630581abfb400f827aac4dfa91b3b48b94d8b57c3f4753d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d284739a502152e6e24720a7aea5517e44766d986c65314a8bac0557d7621c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-09T13:54:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30c95ecac711aa1ef2d756c64f6c9e2182a0a4b43878d52f5e8e5a4836606329"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}