Pith Number

pith:MKHJQF3Y

pith:2025:MKHJQF3YITVPAFDHZ5K5CJK2MO

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Fixed Points and Stochastic Meritocracies: A Long-Term Perspective

Diptangshu Sen, Gaurab Pokharel, Juba Ziani, Sanmay Das

arxiv:2510.07478 v2 · 2025-10-08 · cs.CY · cs.GT · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{MKHJQF3YITVPAFDHZ5K5CJK2MO}

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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	2026-05-27T02:05:06.533132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

628e98177844eaf01467cf55d1255a6390217250dfff10375b479b3fadefb29e

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.07478 · arxiv_version: 2510.07478v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.07478 · pith_short_12: MKHJQF3YITVP · pith_short_16: MKHJQF3YITVPAFDH · pith_short_8: MKHJQF3Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKHJQF3YITVPAFDHZ5K5CJK2MO \
  | 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: 628e98177844eaf01467cf55d1255a6390217250dfff10375b479b3fadefb29e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9edb7b0ac32ddc29ae262ca25762691cbc3eeb7597191cdbaec993f218ca481",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-08T19:23:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0200a71085403912827c8401cf0c597f71fcf5ef87aaf7593c441f732eaa68d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.07478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}