Pith Number

pith:W4MKXUUS

pith:2012:W4MKXUUSCJJL2EPXRG6LTM6GIQ

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Spontaneous Economic Order

Yong Tao

arxiv:1210.0898 v2 · 2012-10-02 · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4MKXUUSCJJL2EPXRG6LTM6GIQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T03:13:56.186904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b718abd2921252bd11f789bcb9b3c644124b852021ae013cb22cd05816919a10

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.0898 · arxiv_version: 1210.0898v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.0898 · pith_short_12: W4MKXUUSCJJL · pith_short_16: W4MKXUUSCJJL2EPX · pith_short_8: W4MKXUUS

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/W4MKXUUSCJJL2EPXRG6LTM6GIQ \
  | 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: b718abd2921252bd11f789bcb9b3c644124b852021ae013cb22cd05816919a10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c71e6dee956ba97644749e0766003f0df36f4aefd687fef4a659f08305dca4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-02T16:28:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7a279b2d08bd5cb67cef9a0a166091d9035ea1e3c38ddb63101413ece8f40d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.0898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}