Pith Number

pith:YN3VX3LO

pith:2015:YN3VX3LOL3Q36M3R4FXTPMXUOH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Graph representation of balance sheets: from exogenous to endogenous money

Cyril Pitrou

arxiv:1504.03895 v3 · 2015-04-15 · q-fin.EC · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YN3VX3LOL3Q36M3R4FXTPMXUOH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:45.595025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3775bed6e5ee1bf3371e16f37b2f471c39e1f110cac01f7d35f10601c1fd437

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03895 · arxiv_version: 1504.03895v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03895 · pith_short_12: YN3VX3LOL3Q3 · pith_short_16: YN3VX3LOL3Q36M3R · pith_short_8: YN3VX3LO

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/YN3VX3LOL3Q36M3R4FXTPMXUOH \
  | 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: c3775bed6e5ee1bf3371e16f37b2f471c39e1f110cac01f7d35f10601c1fd437

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c434e41d4404dd05f85c25135606ef4867209511538d8556aedfd4b1af326884",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-15T12:54:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16de104d3e73bb755f6ff759ff989fbe6306ebf71c0416c8f9798b20bb240d81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}