Pith Number

pith:FTUESS5O

pith:2015:FTUESS5OWBLTBWBJMVDXVQLFH3

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On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Pasquale Cirillo

arxiv:1505.04722 v2 · 2015-05-18 · stat.AP · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTUESS5OWBLTBWBJMVDXVQLFH3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:24.662741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ce8494baeb05730d82965477ac1653ecda3c23bbd38911a99e820cb0eba28bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.04722 · arxiv_version: 1505.04722v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.04722 · pith_short_12: FTUESS5OWBLT · pith_short_16: FTUESS5OWBLTBWBJ · pith_short_8: FTUESS5O

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/FTUESS5OWBLTBWBJMVDXVQLFH3 \
  | 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: 2ce8494baeb05730d82965477ac1653ecda3c23bbd38911a99e820cb0eba28bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0028de2408a8d5974631e7b732740749ec97cb04d09274659199ac72f1b8a19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-18T17:05:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62003e6c0436f338ef884c86fd85d0f5ae27eb1ef8363bc2c90fcbf90c1d6427"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.04722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}