Pith Number

pith:RYS3VLSL

pith:2015:RYS3VLSL3D3OT5D6CJCFYOQYAV

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The Similarity of Global Value Chains: A Network-Based Measure

Alessandro Chessa, Greg Morrison, Massimo Riccaboni, Michelangelo Puliga, Zhen Zhu

arxiv:1508.04392 v1 · 2015-08-18 · physics.soc-ph · q-fin.GN

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:53:34.404754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e25baae4bd8f6e9f47e12445c3a18055d2b5dc674c1c6b40fa1d5699762507b

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04392 · arxiv_version: 1508.04392v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04392 · pith_short_12: RYS3VLSL3D3O · pith_short_16: RYS3VLSL3D3OT5D6 · pith_short_8: RYS3VLSL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RYS3VLSL3D3OT5D6CJCFYOQYAV \
  | 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: 8e25baae4bd8f6e9f47e12445c3a18055d2b5dc674c1c6b40fa1d5699762507b

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-18T17:32:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd8c0fda2982ad15a0c6b54c4b5ece1643b415beaa52a039cc5ef9a32960be96"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}