Pith Number

pith:QFKGSOEU

pith:2016:QFKGSOEU3EBG357EL7YFNPWEVI

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A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States

Daniel Martin Katz, Josh Blackman, Michael J Bommarito II

arxiv:1612.03473 v2 · 2016-12-11 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QFKGSOEU3EBG357EL7YFNPWEVI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:01.113751Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8154693894d9026df7e45ff056bec4aa0e0dd024eb51c3b27b7e1f779770e508

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03473 · arxiv_version: 1612.03473v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03473 · pith_short_12: QFKGSOEU3EBG · pith_short_16: QFKGSOEU3EBG357E · pith_short_8: QFKGSOEU

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/QFKGSOEU3EBG357EL7YFNPWEVI \
  | 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: 8154693894d9026df7e45ff056bec4aa0e0dd024eb51c3b27b7e1f779770e508

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30956ad9ed198091cd1e8d4ad88ee757b65b649c27e70196317df2be2a01b873",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-11T20:47:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26c1603923c60ab813d73e720f2016f49d326246d4a94bd8ad44fcb2b6a64d84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}