Pith Number

pith:4R4NY3J6

pith:2016:4R4NY3J6GNWXGDAK5R2YQZP657

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Stochastic Tail Exponent For Asymmetric Power Laws

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv:1609.02369 v3 · 2016-09-08 · q-fin.ST · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4R4NY3J6GNWXGDAK5R2YQZP657}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:59.510920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e478dc6d3e336d730c0aec758865feefe75bbea26f2ccb9d36f743e7524f74b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02369 · arxiv_version: 1609.02369v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02369 · pith_short_12: 4R4NY3J6GNWX · pith_short_16: 4R4NY3J6GNWXGDAK · pith_short_8: 4R4NY3J6

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/4R4NY3J6GNWXGDAK5R2YQZP657 \
  | 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: e478dc6d3e336d730c0aec758865feefe75bbea26f2ccb9d36f743e7524f74b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8c2f6506566fb18acea6b322aea87d964c988e0b33c73a2841bb0fecb1a45e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-08T10:36:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00072c84e941f871e143e58e3884450eff11f891d58d0fa7c6a234e6683cbc45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}