Pith Number

pith:WDUR4O54

pith:2011:WDUR4O543D63X75PO4MA4XFTRQ

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Ex ante prediction of cascade sizes on networks of agents facing binary outcomes

Ellie Evans, Paul Ormerod

arxiv:1103.3457 v1 · 2011-03-17 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WDUR4O543D63X75PO4MA4XFTRQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:33.658644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0e91e3bbcd8fdbbffaf77180e5cb38c1e6e5f7ef39b6bff5d65a37cf0d37cba

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.3457 · arxiv_version: 1103.3457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.3457 · pith_short_12: WDUR4O543D63 · pith_short_16: WDUR4O543D63X75P · pith_short_8: WDUR4O54

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WDUR4O543D63X75PO4MA4XFTRQ \
  | 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: b0e91e3bbcd8fdbbffaf77180e5cb38c1e6e5f7ef39b6bff5d65a37cf0d37cba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a848ba5f7328726e0c4e5909ea46201722cac9cb54cf4c654c220d3e16814722",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-17T16:48:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bcf395cfb58b588a2174c616edb959b3bba2fc374b5925bce48ad7cab67e08f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.3457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}