Pith Number

pith:YVAD5AFI

pith:2016:YVAD5AFIPFQPWDVCYDS4UPWJV6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The invisible hand and the rational agent are behind bubbles and crashes

Serge Galam

arxiv:1601.02990 v1 · 2016-01-12 · physics.soc-ph · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVAD5AFIPFQPWDVCYDS4UPWJV6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:49.886292Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5403e80a87960fb0ea2c0e5ca3ec9af99657923c65a8c81fefb74fa5234aa90

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.02990 · arxiv_version: 1601.02990v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.02990 · pith_short_12: YVAD5AFIPFQP · pith_short_16: YVAD5AFIPFQPWDVC · pith_short_8: YVAD5AFI

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/YVAD5AFIPFQPWDVCYDS4UPWJV6 \
  | 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: c5403e80a87960fb0ea2c0e5ca3ec9af99657923c65a8c81fefb74fa5234aa90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88e63b34d55b302f83ce6f04506d3fec559212421ed27427d0f475b4d26c07fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-12T18:33:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d06ab37398d7b2e6921574ebca3726775ee3a3ac8a1f3ce89c26041bc28f495e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.02990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}