Pith Number

pith:WQPKLSLV

pith:2017:WQPKLSLV2K6ESKS2CMLTSIVVF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A decentralized route to the origins of scaling in human language

Felipe Urbina, Javier Vera

arxiv:1705.05762 v2 · 2017-05-16 · physics.soc-ph · cs.CL · nlin.AO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WQPKLSLV2K6ESKS2CMLTSIVVF4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:44.328827Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b41ea5c975d2bc492a5a13173922b52f03f5686f284f10413f9218586dfbdc9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05762 · arxiv_version: 1705.05762v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05762 · pith_short_12: WQPKLSLV2K6E · pith_short_16: WQPKLSLV2K6ESKS2 · pith_short_8: WQPKLSLV

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/WQPKLSLV2K6ESKS2CMLTSIVVF4 \
  | 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: b41ea5c975d2bc492a5a13173922b52f03f5686f284f10413f9218586dfbdc9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "20335d5e09ba5ad528645b1973cd38e5b13c733875f7e4abecc8e182e50c63c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-16T15:23:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ff39a26a518fc8d89b57fe1188af242b5a2182176127f2d6de0cece20a34808"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05762",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}