Pith Number

pith:G5ND3I6E

pith:2012:G5ND3I6EKEZVGDR74KPPUB7YGY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A practical recipe to fit discrete power-law distributions

Alvaro Corral, Anna Deluca, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

arxiv:1209.1270 v1 · 2012-09-06 · stat.AP · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5ND3I6EKEZVGDR74KPPUB7YGY}

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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	2026-05-18T03:46:06.065163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

375a3da3c45133530e3fe29efa07f8362d6f77172a4c7e424c6d11d1c1281b01

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1270 · arxiv_version: 1209.1270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1270 · pith_short_12: G5ND3I6EKEZV · pith_short_16: G5ND3I6EKEZVGDR7 · pith_short_8: G5ND3I6E

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/G5ND3I6EKEZVGDR74KPPUB7YGY \
  | 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: 375a3da3c45133530e3fe29efa07f8362d6f77172a4c7e424c6d11d1c1281b01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93d961297c7f2a91b6c36eabea1a0e5e7188bb64edc6af680c97cde948845fce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-06T12:43:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba579ee31b0bb0211116b9dfeee3c91e9448003092e451b8eb44415ada55e122"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}