Pith Number

pith:SUTVO7HK

pith:2016:SUTVO7HK4M2JSWP4HDPYHA7JIU

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Serendipity and strategy in rapid innovation

M. Reeves, R. Palma, R. S. Farr, T. M. A. Fink

arxiv:1608.01900 v4 · 2016-07-19 · physics.soc-ph · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SUTVO7HK4M2JSWP4HDPYHA7JIU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:24:20.603847Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9527577ceae3349959fc38df8383e9453487406f20cbd41a9f58c971455fdc6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01900 · arxiv_version: 1608.01900v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01900 · pith_short_12: SUTVO7HK4M2J · pith_short_16: SUTVO7HK4M2JSWP4 · pith_short_8: SUTVO7HK

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/SUTVO7HK4M2JSWP4HDPYHA7JIU \
  | 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: 9527577ceae3349959fc38df8383e9453487406f20cbd41a9f58c971455fdc6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8273f6cee00e6b25a4bfeaa1644ea190ff18344c6f8e1c6c7c52018ad9c7d0e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-19T13:56:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bacd45daf599fae78b950797c2fdd28a76d8bcc1b3115634dc106765baee642"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}