Pith Number

pith:UJTJU5C6

pith:2018:UJTJU5C63G4NWMZ25VQ7PEYYJL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Talent and experience shape competitive social hierarchies

M\'arton P\'osfai, Raissa M. D'Souza

arxiv:1808.04024 v1 · 2018-08-12 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJTJU5C63G4NWMZ25VQ7PEYYJL}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:07:39.899307Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2669a745ed9b8db333aed61f793184ace3a1efcafdcb64a1b48f0b22323fc9f

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.04024 · arxiv_version: 1808.04024v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.04024 · pith_short_12: UJTJU5C63G4N · pith_short_16: UJTJU5C63G4NWMZ2 · pith_short_8: UJTJU5C6

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/UJTJU5C63G4NWMZ25VQ7PEYYJL \
  | 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: a2669a745ed9b8db333aed61f793184ace3a1efcafdcb64a1b48f0b22323fc9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4c6c293ac029f0938eadb3d49d243857b75d562d09f4ea6bda21ef0e00ef279",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-12T23:54:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe9a3a5e59219c9888e69c590d112041166977ab34337c031c3321b817645b14"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.04024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}