Pith Number

pith:RKQN3HPO

pith:2026:RKQN3HPOVVVZCAMDYDBCEPBB5U

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A new decomposition approach to modeling financial returns: Conditioning sign on magnitude

Ars\`ene Brou, Richard Luger

arxiv:2606.04153 v1 · 2026-06-02 · q-fin.ST

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKQN3HPOVVVZCAMDYDBCEPBB5U}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-04T00:06:52.093143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8aa0dd9deead6b910183c0c2223c21ed07bac4a6fd7e87463a524ca063647b17

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04153 · arxiv_version: 2606.04153v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04153 · pith_short_12: RKQN3HPOVVVZ · pith_short_16: RKQN3HPOVVVZCAMD · pith_short_8: RKQN3HPO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RKQN3HPOVVVZCAMDYDBCEPBB5U \
  | 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: 8aa0dd9deead6b910183c0c2223c21ed07bac4a6fd7e87463a524ca063647b17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebbc86ae11a367538dc27724a85d6ae490fd3e4cdf7932b9aa673d6897e45b3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T19:20:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6453fc17547057213e87e9ccd373f36c551093c2a149df20e7d34a6eeadf2d00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}