Pith Number

pith:S4Q32NXQ

pith:2017:S4Q32NXQW73VA4FDAB4JQZVA4K

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Scientific Polarization

Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1712.04561 v2 · 2017-12-12 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S4Q32NXQW73VA4FDAB4JQZVA4K}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:59.618307Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9721bd36f0b7f75070a300789866a0e28ec18f7d97245f0d919d6ef1aa207520

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04561 · arxiv_version: 1712.04561v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04561 · pith_short_12: S4Q32NXQW73V · pith_short_16: S4Q32NXQW73VA4FD · pith_short_8: S4Q32NXQ

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/S4Q32NXQW73VA4FDAB4JQZVA4K \
  | 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: 9721bd36f0b7f75070a300789866a0e28ec18f7d97245f0d919d6ef1aa207520

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96e52f8a185367eee7fb4036706944ce746cd1ff37d21347735e5d1a84d58ff1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T22:59:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22e1ac54feb3708a907026e940af1fd5c3167d1d66183fe170c3c9bac51e541a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04561",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}