Pith Number

pith:W7IZYQKZ

pith:2007:W7IZYQKZOUWNRTLLOI6RXFKHP6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How a "Hit" is Born: The Emergence of Popularity from the Dynamics of Collective Choice

Raj Kumar Pan, Sitabhra Sinha

arxiv:0704.2955 v1 · 2007-04-23 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.other · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W7IZYQKZOUWNRTLLOI6RXFKHP6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:04:53.680985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7d19c4159752cd8cd6b723d1b95477fb04eac24a52fc8a207456ea8e83f7163

Aliases

arxiv: 0704.2955 · arxiv_version: 0704.2955v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0704.2955 · pith_short_12: W7IZYQKZOUWN · pith_short_16: W7IZYQKZOUWNRTLL · pith_short_8: W7IZYQKZ

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/W7IZYQKZOUWNRTLLOI6RXFKHP6 \
  | 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: b7d19c4159752cd8cd6b723d1b95477fb04eac24a52fc8a207456ea8e83f7163

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "481396e8d49af51a2f19d5e8854128a2b5cab93ec73a570042f95531fe3d410d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-04-23T09:53:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4386a794a22da93a5be4880b8aa3e0a3ed1266859e6c74e7f915b57e13b15648"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0704.2955",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}