Pith Number

pith:V2ZBYLQM

pith:2012:V2ZBYLQMQ7Y5MZTHM4CC6I4Q6J

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The Kinetics of Wealth and the Origin of the Pareto Law

Bruce M. Boghosian

arxiv:1212.6300 v2 · 2012-12-27 · physics.soc-ph · q-fin.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2ZBYLQMQ7Y5MZTHM4CC6I4Q6J}

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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	2026-05-18T02:47:16.255049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeb21c2e0c87f1d6666767042f2390f2609b097b280dbee0ffd7474b78a2e739

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.6300 · arxiv_version: 1212.6300v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.6300 · pith_short_12: V2ZBYLQMQ7Y5 · pith_short_16: V2ZBYLQMQ7Y5MZTH · pith_short_8: V2ZBYLQM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V2ZBYLQMQ7Y5MZTHM4CC6I4Q6J \
  | 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: aeb21c2e0c87f1d6666767042f2390f2609b097b280dbee0ffd7474b78a2e739

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4f674b6a008dc2f56fb29193fb9fae79e7c6395a8de8524c2a699b8ccfcd3e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-27T04:24:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8064fa2a145e503965ba3508245537c6fdf6111dff9ab229fec6be5e1cfb20c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.6300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}