Pith Number

pith:VBGZP6NZ

pith:2012:VBGZP6NZP2KBARYX6BWSYXWZBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physics peeks into the ballot box

Claudio Castellano, Santo Fortunato

arxiv:1210.2426 v1 · 2012-10-08 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBGZP6NZP2KBARYX6BWSYXWZBZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:41.593300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a84d97f9b97e94104717f06d2c5ed90e5093e952af603b13fa4cd43a9185d771

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2426 · arxiv_version: 1210.2426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2426 · pith_short_12: VBGZP6NZP2KB · pith_short_16: VBGZP6NZP2KBARYX · pith_short_8: VBGZP6NZ

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/VBGZP6NZP2KBARYX6BWSYXWZBZ \
  | 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: a84d97f9b97e94104717f06d2c5ed90e5093e952af603b13fa4cd43a9185d771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "104ff376cb06645e43128d341dcc36315d9239fa26b7dbe401589fd417440ef6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-08T21:35:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10e567b63e5923cb8f5d692f7b668ae490ffe4c5a5943199f38ca5105d17a788"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}