Pith Number

pith:ILVQCZWG

pith:2015:ILVQCZWG5U3KOY2LPCFCMEJDLR

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Power-law ansatz in complex systems: excessive loss of information

Chin-De Chang, Ching-Hao Chang, Meng-Xue Tsai, Nan-Jung Hsu, Sun-Ting Tsai, Tzay-Ming Hong

arxiv:1505.02016 v3 · 2015-05-08 · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{ILVQCZWG5U3KOY2LPCFCMEJDLR}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:18.711357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42eb0166c6ed36a7634b788a2611235c40206088573f30b217d75fecc12ec107

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.02016 · arxiv_version: 1505.02016v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.02016 · pith_short_12: ILVQCZWG5U3K · pith_short_16: ILVQCZWG5U3KOY2L · pith_short_8: ILVQCZWG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ILVQCZWG5U3KOY2LPCFCMEJDLR \
  | 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: 42eb0166c6ed36a7634b788a2611235c40206088573f30b217d75fecc12ec107

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2771730551667488013db891f85326bc367822e96722f36d291715bc8ec188a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-08T12:40:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1542e9b5bc06fc5c49ae827e7283e86d770365696b4b104ad1b984697fce7b43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.02016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}