Pith Number

pith:XZNGK3A5

pith:2018:XZNGK3A5S2PHC2R5F2FT6KCOCZ

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A Maximum Entropy Method for the Prediction of Size Distributions

Caroline Colijn, Cornelia Metzig

arxiv:1811.04972 v5 · 2018-11-12 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZNGK3A5S2PHC2R5F2FT6KCOCZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T00:47:55.661500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be5a656c1d969e716a3d2e8b3f284e167b49beb720366a17c12fa8479b7dd4f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.04972 · arxiv_version: 1811.04972v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04972 · pith_short_12: XZNGK3A5S2PH · pith_short_16: XZNGK3A5S2PHC2R5 · pith_short_8: XZNGK3A5

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/XZNGK3A5S2PHC2R5F2FT6KCOCZ \
  | 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: be5a656c1d969e716a3d2e8b3f284e167b49beb720366a17c12fa8479b7dd4f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3ceb7285ae026e77d354b9e146a0e11cac7b7ec05a7b47b46292aa3705f193b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-12T19:23:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "806bdd65c7460da3898379445af48bdfb805a42b673b2a0b6a7dd36dab4c649e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.04972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}