Pith Number

pith:VSWJY4UF

pith:2010:VSWJY4UFCOXQX722AKXUUMZZZ4

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Public debates driven by incomplete scientific data: the cases of evolution theory, global warming and H1N1 pandemic influenza

Serge Galam

arxiv:1004.5009 v1 · 2010-04-28 · physics.pop-ph · cs.CY · nlin.AO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSWJY4UFCOXQX722AKXUUMZZZ4}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:45.609724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acac9c728513af0bff5a02af4a3339cf1f8b785ac591538c4881f4ec23dfb433

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.5009 · arxiv_version: 1004.5009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.5009 · pith_short_12: VSWJY4UFCOXQ · pith_short_16: VSWJY4UFCOXQX722 · pith_short_8: VSWJY4UF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSWJY4UFCOXQX722AKXUUMZZZ4 \
  | 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: acac9c728513af0bff5a02af4a3339cf1f8b785ac591538c4881f4ec23dfb433

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efb9f72cab8da381ed72c98dadb292a8e44d65cf6420b9331703b8f78118058b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-28T12:16:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d8a16262e0d927afc863f2628b008685bab1a99b8044bfcef67b54eb86c7dc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.5009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}