Pith Number

pith:VGCJTV5B

pith:2025:VGCJTV5BCGO7R7T6DMYHRG6ZHK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reciprocity as the Foundational Substrate of Society: How Reciprocal Dynamics Scale into Social Systems

Egil Diau

arxiv:2505.08319 v2 · 2025-05-13 · cs.CY · cs.MA · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGCJTV5BCGO7R7T6DMYHRG6ZHK}

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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	2026-07-05T11:49:33.509956Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a98499d7a1119df8fe7e1b30789bd93aae52f6049e49ddcb38064ed858645979

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.08319 · arxiv_version: 2505.08319v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.08319 · pith_short_12: VGCJTV5BCGO7 · pith_short_16: VGCJTV5BCGO7R7T6 · pith_short_8: VGCJTV5B

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/VGCJTV5BCGO7R7T6DMYHRG6ZHK \
  | 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: a98499d7a1119df8fe7e1b30789bd93aae52f6049e49ddcb38064ed858645979

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a341ca3de7543894ad0f7ef1d92b98e170e6513a2e8ce90ef68830a2b984c5d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-13T07:50:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a832c5269bb54784a9d7ca2dd2ecdf50955a7ec2ebbc3466692ca8206797dd95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.08319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}