Pith Number

pith:I4MVOQIF

pith:2009:I4MVOQIFBYCH2EYGHVFH4DJZBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal patterns of inequality

Anand Banerjee, Victor M. Yakovenko

arxiv:0912.4898 v4 · 2009-12-24 · q-fin.ST

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4MVOQIFBYCH2EYGHVFH4DJZBZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:35.851239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47195741050e047d13063d4a7e0d390e60e0849a9177176ece8cd8849ddc96a9

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.4898 · arxiv_version: 0912.4898v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.4898 · pith_short_12: I4MVOQIFBYCH · pith_short_16: I4MVOQIFBYCH2EYG · pith_short_8: I4MVOQIF

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/I4MVOQIFBYCH2EYGHVFH4DJZBZ \
  | 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: 47195741050e047d13063d4a7e0d390e60e0849a9177176ece8cd8849ddc96a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "340fbbb316b1065863d8b79d09178d14f72d1ab7937f31937fcee8a59c04480f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-24T19:15:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fd136044260f7e13d5e95c74399803b2f7e403149c8310afd8e1ce0672e7a41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.4898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}