Pith Number

pith:O62C5AGN

pith:2012:O62C5AGNRLEXFWZWADPGUN6MWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Smooth Transition from Powerlessness to Absolute Power

Ariel D. Procaccia, Elchanan Mossel, Miklos Z. Racz

arxiv:1205.2074 v3 · 2012-05-09 · cs.GT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O62C5AGNRLEXFWZWADPGUN6MWP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:03.958898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

77b42e80cd8ac972db3600de6a37ccb3c7bebaaafea6779a26cbf7ab677e66fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.2074 · arxiv_version: 1205.2074v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.2074 · pith_short_12: O62C5AGNRLEX · pith_short_16: O62C5AGNRLEXFWZW · pith_short_8: O62C5AGN

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/O62C5AGNRLEXFWZWADPGUN6MWP \
  | 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: 77b42e80cd8ac972db3600de6a37ccb3c7bebaaafea6779a26cbf7ab677e66fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2560fabd095fcc04679a2197eb50bdfcdef19e3b278c46387a879451ffb8af83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-09T19:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26df7561098b9de8c970332d47d44cf77bd6a8c54ed65f08574b645372436f1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.2074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}