Pith Number

pith:3NMDS46O

pith:2025:3NMDS46ODNKYILBS6K5C44KNWS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal ambition in business, politics and life

Ekaterina Landgren, Matthew G. Burgess, Ryan E. Langendorf

arxiv:2502.10500 v5 · 2025-02-14 · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NMDS46ODNKYILBS6K5C44KNWS}

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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	2026-06-01T02:03:19.344713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db583973ce1b55842c32f2ba2e714db487ba1dc21de2c3a2e7fd5a0f406ccf1e

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.10500 · arxiv_version: 2502.10500v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.10500 · pith_short_12: 3NMDS46ODNKY · pith_short_16: 3NMDS46ODNKYILBS · pith_short_8: 3NMDS46O

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/3NMDS46ODNKYILBS6K5C44KNWS \
  | 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: db583973ce1b55842c32f2ba2e714db487ba1dc21de2c3a2e7fd5a0f406ccf1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "561dd491b273b0a1564838b5e6215e6721f72efbe4782e1b97a592f4fd52f4b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-14T19:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f981ee6440b04442bb88368fd7a65153306e6d818525554e8707dd8533d6adbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.10500",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}