Pith Number

pith:VCZEA4NO

pith:2015:VCZEA4NOY45VHR73JII7T6NAS4

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Market Formation as Transitive Closure: the Evolving Pattern of Trade in Music

Jesse Shore

arxiv:1508.07272 v1 · 2015-08-28 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCZEA4NOY45VHR73JII7T6NAS4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:34:36.469352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b24071aec73b53c7fb4a11f9f9a0971124dcb50ae1e1083eb0db9a409aa129

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.07272 · arxiv_version: 1508.07272v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.07272 · pith_short_12: VCZEA4NOY45V · pith_short_16: VCZEA4NOY45VHR73 · pith_short_8: VCZEA4NO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCZEA4NOY45VHR73JII7T6NAS4 \
  | 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: a8b24071aec73b53c7fb4a11f9f9a0971124dcb50ae1e1083eb0db9a409aa129

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39032b063bd0b02b2720fc463fd08099445b6b079c819d2d90d37c0a42ed5e49",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-28T16:46:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7786cd15c9b664da8967a54df6ea278e4e9e2f746c447d8cd16cb94ddf0e9d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.07272",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}