Pith Number

pith:TE5DGLLO

pith:2018:TE5DGLLOGJX4DILYOIWJGJN5GS

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Emergent Democracy

Joichi Ito

arxiv:1807.06953 v1 · 2018-07-14 · physics.soc-ph · cs.CY · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TE5DGLLOGJX4DILYOIWJGJN5GS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:46.770417Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

993a332d6e326fc1a178722c9325bd348643971a9ba09f1ccf7accbdaa8d1cdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06953 · arxiv_version: 1807.06953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06953 · pith_short_12: TE5DGLLOGJX4 · pith_short_16: TE5DGLLOGJX4DILY · pith_short_8: TE5DGLLO

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/TE5DGLLOGJX4DILYOIWJGJN5GS \
  | 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: 993a332d6e326fc1a178722c9325bd348643971a9ba09f1ccf7accbdaa8d1cdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eaf2188c7e986ffb8d2879b32635417d946b335cf1c0709a5325719702c7da2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-14T17:53:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e30cc9f73038c7a3007b173bac03a692c9d0e67d56e9694e1ad1206429272904"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}