Pith Number

pith:7ZXW4AEA

pith:2018:7ZXW4AEAPYTB6GQBOXSDEGL5X3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Optimization-Based Generative Model of Power Laws Using a New Information Theory Based Metric

A. M. Khalili

arxiv:1809.03077 v3 · 2018-09-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7ZXW4AEAPYTB6GQBOXSDEGL5X3}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:31.365722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe6f6e00807e261f1a0175e432197dbedaca9e6a8e955aa2979c41bed207e94b

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.03077 · arxiv_version: 1809.03077v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.03077 · pith_short_12: 7ZXW4AEAPYTB · pith_short_16: 7ZXW4AEAPYTB6GQB · pith_short_8: 7ZXW4AEA

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/7ZXW4AEAPYTB6GQBOXSDEGL5X3 \
  | 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: fe6f6e00807e261f1a0175e432197dbedaca9e6a8e955aa2979c41bed207e94b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dcf64c57469854df39d5fb5d0fef34b5642e67d6c2b1025f16c3fb904986f24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-10T01:41:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a46106bca6f1e1f514848a51b7dbc529ca46e96f50919381e63cfdce3d859a6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.03077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}