Pith Number

pith:WIG6M4OX

pith:2026:WIG6M4OXHWBC3PE6GL74YGDPJD

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The Invisible Coalition Partner: How LLMs Vote When Democracy Gets Concrete

Joel Barmettler

arxiv:2606.00048 v1 · 2026-05-03 · cs.CY · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIG6M4OXHWBC3PE6GL74YGDPJD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-02T00:03:13.324074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b20de671d73d822dbc9e32ffcc186f48f1bf946bc1541e0009c6109f30a67509

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00048 · arxiv_version: 2606.00048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00048 · pith_short_12: WIG6M4OXHWBC · pith_short_16: WIG6M4OXHWBC3PE6 · pith_short_8: WIG6M4OX

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/WIG6M4OXHWBC3PE6GL74YGDPJD \
  | 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: b20de671d73d822dbc9e32ffcc186f48f1bf946bc1541e0009c6109f30a67509

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d043a183b5b73045a911ed9a8d09807d6e29f278519a933a0e8129ab4d0ae4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-03T08:48:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e2a618441d4edcfe3eeefd5e2afd66340ef55930110aec9e94b7d0b0ff675334"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}