Pith Number

pith:3J3DWHTY

pith:2008:3J3DWHTYPZPIIF42TF35TT3QHS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Equilibrium policies when preferences are time inconsistent

Ali Lazrak, Ivar Ekeland

arxiv:0808.3790 v1 · 2008-08-27 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3J3DWHTYPZPIIF42TF35TT3QHS}

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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	2026-07-04T15:13:54.144093Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da763b1e787e5e84179a9977d9cf703cb1d9e23d95dd22554a986830bd108791

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.3790 · arxiv_version: 0808.3790v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.3790 · pith_short_12: 3J3DWHTYPZPI · pith_short_16: 3J3DWHTYPZPIIF42 · pith_short_8: 3J3DWHTY

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/3J3DWHTYPZPIIF42TF35TT3QHS \
  | 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: da763b1e787e5e84179a9977d9cf703cb1d9e23d95dd22554a986830bd108791

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a5693dc795f620105b10e851c0e7fe808aa11e391698505c0fd77aaa9c458c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-27T21:40:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "931c2f2aaa88d6375bed2596b4b3d99b5e87d2d685929da227e0c2cc560ab580"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.3790",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}