Pith Number

pith:4LEPWZSI

pith:2017:4LEPWZSIV7K7ZI6NRJLSV6OYDD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Individuals, Institutions, and Innovation in the Debates of the French Revolution

Alexander T. J. Barron, Jenny Huang, Rebecca L. Spang, Simon DeDeo

arxiv:1710.06867 v1 · 2017-10-18 · physics.soc-ph · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.AO · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4LEPWZSIV7K7ZI6NRJLSV6OYDD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:09.531674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2c8fb6648afd5fca3cd8a572af9d818cedd9120486e6a65335ce13b93a21984

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06867 · arxiv_version: 1710.06867v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06867 · pith_short_12: 4LEPWZSIV7K7 · pith_short_16: 4LEPWZSIV7K7ZI6N · pith_short_8: 4LEPWZSI

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/4LEPWZSIV7K7ZI6NRJLSV6OYDD \
  | 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: e2c8fb6648afd5fca3cd8a572af9d818cedd9120486e6a65335ce13b93a21984

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "acdf35c2164469bdc2994d7a648532948c45880e86609187898c08a5a6fc8288",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.AO",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-18T18:00:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c9674d5e0b414ba111f2d136920b57c6549231a42c88e9be47c1449de06503e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}