Pith Number

pith:NKDV5BBX

pith:2013:NKDV5BBXWNDND4VQ64QLWK5DVX

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How to derive an advantage from the arbitrariness of the g-index

Michael Schreiber

arxiv:1302.6396 v1 · 2013-02-26 · physics.soc-ph · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKDV5BBXWNDND4VQ64QLWK5DVX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:06.282391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a875e8437b346d1f2b0f720bb2ba3aded520388008d812dfe1e6c3804c40e8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6396 · arxiv_version: 1302.6396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6396 · pith_short_12: NKDV5BBXWNDN · pith_short_16: NKDV5BBXWNDND4VQ · pith_short_8: NKDV5BBX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NKDV5BBXWNDND4VQ64QLWK5DVX \
  | 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: 6a875e8437b346d1f2b0f720bb2ba3aded520388008d812dfe1e6c3804c40e8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e2c3ac2ffc3213a53304f26e266eeeb64f3f855c189987ddb225f30a29e5e16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-26T11:24:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f0529f8ebdd3c23be51fdea071ce65ee1b1f6577a3a11615755688be8e7b29a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}