Pith Number

pith:FNZPPYVN

pith:2016:FNZPPYVN2CJLU6QHZPCLJHF3KC

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Empirical Methods for Dynamic Power Law Distributions in the Social Sciences

Ricardo T. Fernholz

arxiv:1602.00159 v3 · 2016-01-30 · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FNZPPYVN2CJLU6QHZPCLJHF3KC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:54.992377Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b72f7e2add092ba7a07cbc4b49cbb50b3c61599648eab70ad9cb4a952282ce3

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.00159 · arxiv_version: 1602.00159v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.00159 · pith_short_12: FNZPPYVN2CJL · pith_short_16: FNZPPYVN2CJLU6QH · pith_short_8: FNZPPYVN

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/FNZPPYVN2CJLU6QHZPCLJHF3KC \
  | 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: 2b72f7e2add092ba7a07cbc4b49cbb50b3c61599648eab70ad9cb4a952282ce3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99b326681b0d167755e9152dc60737a50f48493a969711dc54f7a950040e291d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-30T20:24:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "601bec66871edbc8f9319e41ccaf515479a0099d6e7121e8b80e6577ca5d8a3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.00159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}