Pith Number

pith:TBDVGKRQ

pith:2017:TBDVGKRQZPDQLTMXRYDPYS3UUG

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Why lot: How sortition came to help representative democracy

Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Maurizio Caserta, Salvatore Spagano

arxiv:1712.04194 v2 · 2017-12-12 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TBDVGKRQZPDQLTMXRYDPYS3UUG}

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:55.867488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9847532a30cbc705cd978e06fc4b74a1a9368e3278aa6af3a998863ff64f8a6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04194 · arxiv_version: 1712.04194v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04194 · pith_short_12: TBDVGKRQZPDQ · pith_short_16: TBDVGKRQZPDQLTMX · pith_short_8: TBDVGKRQ

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/TBDVGKRQZPDQLTMXRYDPYS3UUG \
  | 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: 9847532a30cbc705cd978e06fc4b74a1a9368e3278aa6af3a998863ff64f8a6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c07efc6984d90d5166f0176a37e9093eaaf47de1ccf0062e9ee2f76f6108169",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T09:52:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d413f04fd89d039374961c6f40deaa99270c039436f8c73aa206e972b79eec15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}