{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2026:UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY","short_pith_number":"pith:UOJUJ5WP","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"a39344f6cffebc291b6b7c10976474761b6e0ea5bafec3dc235ba36bac02566c","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"2603.04939","version":2},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"When minor issues matter: symmetries, pluralism, and polarization in similarity-based opinion dynamics","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["q-bio.PE"],"primary_cat":"physics.soc-ph","authors_text":"Brian Mintz, Daniel Simonson, Dominik Wodarz, Feng Fu, Natalia L. Komarova","submitted_at":"2026-03-05T08:38:58Z","abstract_excerpt":"Understanding how opinions evolve through social interactions is crucial for mitigating polarization. Existing opinion-dynamics models incorporate both attractive and repulsive interactions but typically assume that all issues are equally important. We develop and analyze a stochastic agent-based model where issues carry heterogeneous weights that influence both social affinity and the likelihood of opinion change. Surprisingly, introducing even a single issue with arbitrarily small weight can destabilize otherwise stable states, increasing convergence times by orders of magnitude. To explain "},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2603.04939","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"physics.soc-ph","submitted_at":"2026-03-05T08:38:58Z","cross_cats_sorted":["q-bio.PE"],"title_canon_sha256":"01e9d037891a2e2777e912c5df4d6d7f679a849a49a5f01506764ebb86265cca","abstract_canon_sha256":"c99e2f7e30cb0f247d69642da5c2e070fb6b4ccf254a6c45349f94404fe07c80"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603960Z","signature_b64":"l+WcrFSmNGfBMfiGlTwyKYrbHVDe4IBYOZXbFowfmbJzABwu78t2e6X6yzlMeMG0Yzw/WnkjFP4+YQEh6bc5Aw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"a39344f6cffebc291b6b7c10976474761b6e0ea5bafec3dc235ba36bac02566c","last_reissued_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603492Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603492Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"When minor issues matter: symmetries, pluralism, and polarization in similarity-based opinion dynamics","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["q-bio.PE"],"primary_cat":"physics.soc-ph","authors_text":"Brian Mintz, Daniel Simonson, Dominik Wodarz, Feng Fu, Natalia L. Komarova","submitted_at":"2026-03-05T08:38:58Z","abstract_excerpt":"Understanding how opinions evolve through social interactions is crucial for mitigating polarization. Existing opinion-dynamics models incorporate both attractive and repulsive interactions but typically assume that all issues are equally important. We develop and analyze a stochastic agent-based model where issues carry heterogeneous weights that influence both social affinity and the likelihood of opinion change. Surprisingly, introducing even a single issue with arbitrarily small weight can destabilize otherwise stable states, increasing convergence times by orders of magnitude. To explain "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2603.04939","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2603.04939/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2603.04939","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2603.04939v2","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2603.04939","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"UOJUJ5WP726C","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"UOJUJ5WP726CSG3L","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"UOJUJ5WP","created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":0,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY","json":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/UOJUJ5WP"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/UOJUJ5WP","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=2603.04939&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/UOJUJ5WP726CSG3LPQIJOZDUOY/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00","updated_at":"2026-06-19T16:11:21.603549+00:00"}