Pith Number

pith:TKQEYSC6

pith:2012:TKQEYSC6ET7MQQ4SPI6RFERLLY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Principle underlying Scale Invariant Social Systems

A. Hernando, A. Plastino

arxiv:1204.2420 v1 · 2012-04-11 · stat.AP · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TKQEYSC6ET7MQQ4SPI6RFERLLY}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:57:53.603207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9aa04c485e24fec843927a3d12922b5e299671f3107e11a4a3bf5b0208ee071c

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2420 · arxiv_version: 1204.2420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2420 · pith_short_12: TKQEYSC6ET7M · pith_short_16: TKQEYSC6ET7MQQ4S · pith_short_8: TKQEYSC6

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/TKQEYSC6ET7MQQ4SPI6RFERLLY \
  | 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: 9aa04c485e24fec843927a3d12922b5e299671f3107e11a4a3bf5b0208ee071c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2063334e2a930f6d25579a3388acf8114737b1496f33e10a161f4a7bd917b4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-11T11:39:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23b22f7e40e68bc2fe968675830c402c09922b367f9864540f8a0ce96f1a095a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}