Pith Number

pith:HUNDMI5F

pith:2024:HUNDMI5FUMRVR2JUTZHZC3J3QK

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Why Honor Heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion

Jean-Louis Dessalles

arxiv:2408.08893 v2 · 2024-08-08 · physics.soc-ph · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HUNDMI5FUMRVR2JUTZHZC3J3QK}

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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	2026-07-05T10:07:26.097692Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d1a3623a5a32358e9349e4f916d3b82b3cdcf9a4341ca68dae08dc95afee7cf

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.08893 · arxiv_version: 2408.08893v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.08893 · pith_short_12: HUNDMI5FUMRV · pith_short_16: HUNDMI5FUMRVR2JU · pith_short_8: HUNDMI5F

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/HUNDMI5FUMRVR2JUTZHZC3J3QK \
  | 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: 3d1a3623a5a32358e9349e4f916d3b82b3cdcf9a4341ca68dae08dc95afee7cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7283ae8e2920b7a0ecd357c9f5db4c1d0e0823470e079f7316317ffb0573b93b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-08T14:32:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59ba88d9ff2924f6ea5894481e985ada48926a0b5d131084070d3f33894f2183"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.08893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}