Pith Number

pith:X7EGM4US

pith:2018:X7EGM4USYT4CJH4ZEGLVDY45PM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal City-size distributions through rank ordering

Abhik Ghosh, Banasri Basu

arxiv:1809.08786 v3 · 2018-09-24 · physics.soc-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7EGM4USYT4CJH4ZEGLVDY45PM}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:29.476898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfc8667292c4f8249f99219751e39d7b3f3d7d4aec0ab7c59947b4a627ad090d

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.08786 · arxiv_version: 1809.08786v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.08786 · pith_short_12: X7EGM4USYT4C · pith_short_16: X7EGM4USYT4CJH4Z · pith_short_8: X7EGM4US

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/X7EGM4USYT4CJH4ZEGLVDY45PM \
  | 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: bfc8667292c4f8249f99219751e39d7b3f3d7d4aec0ab7c59947b4a627ad090d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09aab7aadd187ddf8254bf864cea98153483d6af7c84175547f788a0cdfa90e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-24T07:53:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b40e09afd3ff7f04074db1c53185356d3af01fbf46ea129aed3e26256681947f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.08786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}