Pith Number

pith:ZN2ZDJCD

pith:2017:ZN2ZDJCD4VR5A4H6MUKUKULSU3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generalized Gelation Theory describes Human Online Aggregation in support of Extremism

Minzhang Zheng, Neil F. Johnson, Pedro D. Manrique, Zhenfeng Cao

arxiv:1712.06000 v1 · 2017-12-16 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn · nlin.AO · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZN2ZDJCD4VR5A4H6MUKUKULSU3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:19.013123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb7591a443e563d070fe6515455172a6ed41de27963f8c34a2bfdeb59c919d27

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06000 · arxiv_version: 1712.06000v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06000 · pith_short_12: ZN2ZDJCD4VR5 · pith_short_16: ZN2ZDJCD4VR5A4H6 · pith_short_8: ZN2ZDJCD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZN2ZDJCD4VR5A4H6MUKUKULSU3 \
  | 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: cb7591a443e563d070fe6515455172a6ed41de27963f8c34a2bfdeb59c919d27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93273d097e1a77e44a35f41854a369e80278fbbacbae36a6e0ec474c7329bd93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-16T18:08:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "387bdd1566c6e2b57f6a064f5c68ed3aa28cd2d1d54f7eaa47c7de97c9a0d79f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}