Pith Number

pith:FQTQIIRK

pith:2016:FQTQIIRKBPYSCDFHGFJ6BLYKC3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simon's fundamental rich-get-richer model entails a dominant first-mover advantage

Andrew J. Reagan, Christopher M. Danforth, Colin M. Van Oort, David Rushing Dewhurst, Fletcher F. Hazlehurst, Jake Ryland Williams, Lewis Mitchell, Peter Sheridan Dodds

arxiv:1608.06313 v5 · 2016-08-16 · physics.soc-ph · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FQTQIIRKBPYSCDFHGFJ6BLYKC3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:44:47.578404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c2704222a0bf1210ca73153e0af0a16f9ccd78c0afb17ea33fa56b08cba6c82

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06313 · arxiv_version: 1608.06313v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06313 · pith_short_12: FQTQIIRKBPYS · pith_short_16: FQTQIIRKBPYSCDFH · pith_short_8: FQTQIIRK

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/FQTQIIRKBPYSCDFHGFJ6BLYKC3 \
  | 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: 2c2704222a0bf1210ca73153e0af0a16f9ccd78c0afb17ea33fa56b08cba6c82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff0df46c340b7b89f54c6500d742d5ba0941136d53a6834235f6b0116bda136b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-16T16:45:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01dd40cde0439818dc63548ec118f9986549cff7b98ce3f7c004aabc3e32e8a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06313",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}