Pith Number

pith:WVXLKNZD

pith:2009:WVXLKNZDTD5AYUU2ZTBKOOP6G6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predictability in an unpredictable artificial cultural market

Kristin Glass, Paul Ormerod

arxiv:0908.1320 v1 · 2009-08-10 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVXLKNZDTD5AYUU2ZTBKOOP6G6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:12:36.066848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b56eb5372398fa0c529accc2a739fe378cb69ccb7f34c33689a5f7c7b86a9e29

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.1320 · arxiv_version: 0908.1320v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.1320 · pith_short_12: WVXLKNZDTD5A · pith_short_16: WVXLKNZDTD5AYUU2 · pith_short_8: WVXLKNZD

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/WVXLKNZDTD5AYUU2ZTBKOOP6G6 \
  | 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: b56eb5372398fa0c529accc2a739fe378cb69ccb7f34c33689a5f7c7b86a9e29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "058a99ad8d723a69b7dfdabe32e5b8966f8752f68f565cc12f9913ed72225b88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-10T13:23:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8bf100f220521c8238fe5fa5d98f8fa2487043e6ab4229c308d16232b0e4de97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.1320",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}