Pith Number

pith:FOL6EKMS

pith:2013:FOL6EKMSD3UZYUYZZLOFWY67FP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A mathematical theory of fame

M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury

arxiv:1301.2706 v1 · 2013-01-12 · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FOL6EKMSD3UZYUYZZLOFWY67FP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:26.788091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b97e229921ee99c5319cadc5b63df2bdb9bee544c8ecb67723d40f51476e8f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.2706 · arxiv_version: 1301.2706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2706 · pith_short_12: FOL6EKMSD3UZ · pith_short_16: FOL6EKMSD3UZYUYZ · pith_short_8: FOL6EKMS

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/FOL6EKMSD3UZYUYZZLOFWY67FP \
  | 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: 2b97e229921ee99c5319cadc5b63df2bdb9bee544c8ecb67723d40f51476e8f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37120e3edbc8748a80667b36770ee30871367b0f914d6d2c1d819989c444d85f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-12T18:44:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "614d07d6573c073e0225353a12c1d74afb56278e4c1238a4505fd56d7ebaf537"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.2706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}