Pith Number

pith:3KTKBVZP

pith:2006:3KTKBVZPQHO2HUJYKBPIW27I3W

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The Apparent Madness of Crowds: Irrational collective behavior emerging from interactions among rational agents

Sitabhra Sinha

arxiv:physics/0606078 v1 · 2006-06-08 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.other · q-fin.TR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3KTKBVZPQHO2HUJYKBPIW27I3W}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:06.920823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

daa6a0d72f81dda3d138505e8b6be8ddb8ed3a012a73406a5be8282bcd10317d

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0606078 · arxiv_version: physics/0606078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0606078 · pith_short_12: 3KTKBVZPQHO2 · pith_short_16: 3KTKBVZPQHO2HUJY · pith_short_8: 3KTKBVZP

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/3KTKBVZPQHO2HUJYKBPIW27I3W \
  | 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: daa6a0d72f81dda3d138505e8b6be8ddb8ed3a012a73406a5be8282bcd10317d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd76e6d5e009c1305713ab91f4919152a4a7a88893e9ba5ce73cdc8ce26eda2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "q-fin.TR"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-06-08T09:37:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e35e5b19a426aeabb4a3fc0e7f457589f8ba17e2ee4b2e80176f957e213e515b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0606078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}