Pith Number

pith:XMSBN72X

pith:2017:XMSBN72X3X4WR2JA6CIQSU2QGN

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Sparse game changers restore collective motion in panicked human crowds

Ajinkya Kulkarni, Mahesh V. Panchagnula, Sumesh P. Thampi

arxiv:1711.06468 v1 · 2017-11-17 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XMSBN72X3X4WR2JA6CIQSU2QGN}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:44.313476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb2416ff57ddf968e920f091095350334b0223a537472c68ee4ee93ef69de290

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06468 · arxiv_version: 1711.06468v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06468 · pith_short_12: XMSBN72X3X4W · pith_short_16: XMSBN72X3X4WR2JA · pith_short_8: XMSBN72X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XMSBN72X3X4WR2JA6CIQSU2QGN \
  | 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: bb2416ff57ddf968e920f091095350334b0223a537472c68ee4ee93ef69de290

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7cea6d0d3e11b3921b015284b300774cf9d2a0c74576c5ba16fc45299711325",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-17T09:39:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7772f870e0b44cab66a9b4cda1ea36e6a0cef5c49e10fa31690f16b77a2a9215"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06468",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}