Pith Number

pith:WCBGSBYR

pith:2026:WCBGSBYRW2FLRNFQQZ7N6FIMVP

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Explaining the Macroeconomic Inertia Puzzle

Michael Cai

arxiv:2607.27548 v1 · 2026-07-30 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCBGSBYRW2FLRNFQQZ7N6FIMVP}

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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	2026-07-31T01:25:45.817100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b082690711b68ab8b4b0867edf150cabd10f189f4ccda8a375decc8451e85f20

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.27548 · arxiv_version: 2607.27548v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.27548 · pith_short_12: WCBGSBYRW2FL · pith_short_16: WCBGSBYRW2FLRNFQ · pith_short_8: WCBGSBYR

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/WCBGSBYRW2FLRNFQQZ7N6FIMVP \
  | 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: b082690711b68ab8b4b0867edf150cabd10f189f4ccda8a375decc8451e85f20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9e955d717ef7e558464a775879ddac143d691c0810b1ac5a42dab7ff52fcccb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-30T00:47:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df56002bacccadcaae810bc8a317b015fc7ced413e321cd41c727f6c39bac8ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.27548",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}