Pith Number

pith:3G3OSKEF

pith:2016:3G3OSKEFK6BXB6YKVLVTPUSI4N

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Existence of Hierarchies and Human's Pursuit of Top Hierarchy Lead to Power Law

Haitao Liu, Junying Liang, Shuiyuan Yu

arxiv:1609.07680 v1 · 2016-09-24 · cs.CL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3G3OSKEFK6BXB6YKVLVTPUSI4N}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:55.746464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9b6e92885578370fb0aaaeb37d248e354e13093c85e82c02038ecaae576889a

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07680 · arxiv_version: 1609.07680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07680 · pith_short_12: 3G3OSKEFK6BX · pith_short_16: 3G3OSKEFK6BXB6YK · pith_short_8: 3G3OSKEF

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/3G3OSKEFK6BXB6YKVLVTPUSI4N \
  | 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: d9b6e92885578370fb0aaaeb37d248e354e13093c85e82c02038ecaae576889a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "592f871edf7cdc95f33d5ca41c7bc9b42af41037742ad6898fd9bb0bf09f61dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-24T23:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a64f210d82202fa66d7274348f22b384123b81d0b3cd9de1ce13da42bbf29fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}