Pith Number

pith:PAJ3SEK6

pith:2010:PAJ3SEK6T6MU3U65UR4K6A4O5F

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WARNING: Physics Envy May Be Hazardous To Your Wealth!

Andrew W. Lo, Mark T. Mueller

arxiv:1003.2688 v3 · 2010-03-13 · q-fin.RM · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PAJ3SEK6T6MU3U65UR4K6A4O5F}

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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	2026-05-18T02:24:37.515373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7813b9115e9f994dd3dda478af038ee9616cdc56c56eba82bc470a10a05a2e0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.2688 · arxiv_version: 1003.2688v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.2688 · pith_short_12: PAJ3SEK6T6MU · pith_short_16: PAJ3SEK6T6MU3U65 · pith_short_8: PAJ3SEK6

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/PAJ3SEK6T6MU3U65UR4K6A4O5F \
  | 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: 7813b9115e9f994dd3dda478af038ee9616cdc56c56eba82bc470a10a05a2e0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42683eb3ba82dbeaf6f306a7daa92fc2897f7791dc1a995c5a7969010b36cf4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.RM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-13T08:02:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08758ac2758ad2a33168db3f79e7e41530ab4cd7194a96be18ef57a6b794a1ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.2688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}