Pith Number

pith:U4A5M33F

pith:2023:U4A5M33FPZ5OQGVAOKBOGUJEHU

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Controlling systemic corruption through group size and salary dispersion of public servants

Edwin Buena\~no, Jaime Fernandez, Juan Carlos Gonz\'alez-Avella, Mario Cosenza, Pablo Valverde

arxiv:2304.02113 v1 · 2023-04-04 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4A5M33FPZ5OQGVAOKBOGUJEHU}

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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	2026-07-05T05:58:22.151962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a701d66f657e7ae81aa07282e351243d1418a205e3f7014c119d2c1b8395096f

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.02113 · arxiv_version: 2304.02113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.02113 · pith_short_12: U4A5M33FPZ5O · pith_short_16: U4A5M33FPZ5OQGVA · pith_short_8: U4A5M33F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U4A5M33FPZ5OQGVAOKBOGUJEHU \
  | 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: a701d66f657e7ae81aa07282e351243d1418a205e3f7014c119d2c1b8395096f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f6cd5130604ce69f724d2c130fa4dfe9d350646ea9391b557d19c6074daed9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-04T20:39:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae6bd99b08563b6f5885f64acfb56d305be35565f1bcc07f44fa3840e5688fa1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.02113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}