Pith Number

pith:VGCQQF7I

pith:2025:VGCQQF7IGIKP6NXHJSDXILVBQN

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When Influence Misleads: Informational and Strategic Limits of Social Learning in Trading Networks

Alex Pentland, Bijin Joseph, Christoph Riedl, Esteban Moro

arxiv:2507.01817 v2 · 2025-07-02 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGCQQF7IGIKP6NXHJSDXILVBQN}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:31:29.433337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9850817e83214ff36e74c87742ea18343eba06be916c3532af657c99ae0c2a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.01817 · arxiv_version: 2507.01817v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.01817 · pith_short_12: VGCQQF7IGIKP · pith_short_16: VGCQQF7IGIKP6NXH · pith_short_8: VGCQQF7I

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGCQQF7IGIKP6NXHJSDXILVBQN \
  | 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: a9850817e83214ff36e74c87742ea18343eba06be916c3532af657c99ae0c2a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81a9003ede28c50046ece8a2dc4973442ae5b0161867a03cb68f0a2d6ca5dfac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-02T15:35:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7318d797d65a149147f804597052ad5ac491b9d9606d85ea69915926b1c8f80c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.01817",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}