Pith Number

pith:WW3IX7LL

pith:2011:WW3IX7LLX677EZX4HK5GKVFROI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamics of competing ideas in complex social systems

Gaoxi Xiao, Jian Liu, Yubo Wang

arxiv:1112.5534 v1 · 2011-12-23 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI · math.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WW3IX7LLX677EZX4HK5GKVFROI}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:59:01.036846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5b68bfd6bbfbff266fc3aba6554b1721652553ae44a73009e10e41f30e0813a

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.5534 · arxiv_version: 1112.5534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.5534 · pith_short_12: WW3IX7LLX677 · pith_short_16: WW3IX7LLX677EZX4 · pith_short_8: WW3IX7LL

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/WW3IX7LLX677EZX4HK5GKVFROI \
  | 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: b5b68bfd6bbfbff266fc3aba6554b1721652553ae44a73009e10e41f30e0813a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6e510eedc919cd3b0a3f62fcf6775dad835bb2ad9fbdb720e48232963e2dafb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "math.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-23T08:59:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed64848ea129ff6795d71e2fb68f31d42f3a9d74d5f1164398ec8497371453a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.5534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}