Pith Number

pith:UYWSJ2TQ

pith:2025:UYWSJ2TQJH2SWUJ2ZAFR2SRNNS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Echoes of the hidden: Uncovering coordination beyond network structure

Alex Pentland, Jeremy Kepner, Shahar Somin, Tom Cohen

arxiv:2504.02757 v1 · 2025-04-03 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UYWSJ2TQJH2SWUJ2ZAFR2SRNNS}

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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	2026-07-05T10:44:01.853020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a62d24ea7049f52b513ac80b1d4a2d6c958fc8d49d4fa2ccbe2a54d7c441a2bd

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.02757 · arxiv_version: 2504.02757v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.02757 · pith_short_12: UYWSJ2TQJH2S · pith_short_16: UYWSJ2TQJH2SWUJ2 · pith_short_8: UYWSJ2TQ

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/UYWSJ2TQJH2SWUJ2ZAFR2SRNNS \
  | 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: a62d24ea7049f52b513ac80b1d4a2d6c958fc8d49d4fa2ccbe2a54d7c441a2bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44c74a9b3bd8abed0125a788900afe5fa3aa0abda522f129df1c6ddfec8db2bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-03T16:49:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63870c22a45d52b7bce4d47898a675ef2770e99e9c2b319ab739492c533cd29a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.02757",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}