Pith Number

pith:2BTLFBOJ

pith:2018:2BTLFBOJNA4HNH7XXTV7MJH5LX

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Election Forensics: quantitative methods for electoral fraud detection

Juan Fern\'andez-Gracia, Lucas Lacasa

arxiv:1811.08502 v1 · 2018-11-19 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BTLFBOJNA4HNH7XXTV7MJH5LX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:07.183016Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d066b285c96838769ff7bcebf624fd5de0d7cc23c6811d7d003d101586fee5e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.08502 · arxiv_version: 1811.08502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.08502 · pith_short_12: 2BTLFBOJNA4H · pith_short_16: 2BTLFBOJNA4HNH7X · pith_short_8: 2BTLFBOJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2BTLFBOJNA4HNH7XXTV7MJH5LX \
  | 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: d066b285c96838769ff7bcebf624fd5de0d7cc23c6811d7d003d101586fee5e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93ace8762a0c8ec9d103954298db59bef3e0678b97cf3be11de3dc2b86311ac6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-19T15:35:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1794a13710a20ffeefa512a1463e97486e330b57d03b30c8f704777e8c132277"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.08502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}