Pith Number

pith:4QLJWICG

pith:2026:4QLJWICGCGJ76PWMMAZBDQHYQD

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The fragility of reputation effects

Allen Vong

arxiv:2605.17090 v1 · 2026-05-16 · econ.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QLJWICGCGJ76PWMMAZBDQHYQD}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:03:39.711397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4169b20461193ff3ecc603211c0f880c702c451aaa3155ec49495fb7623bdcc

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17090 · arxiv_version: 2605.17090v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17090 · pith_short_12: 4QLJWICGCGJ7 · pith_short_16: 4QLJWICGCGJ76PWM · pith_short_8: 4QLJWICG

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/4QLJWICGCGJ76PWMMAZBDQHYQD \
  | 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: e4169b20461193ff3ecc603211c0f880c702c451aaa3155ec49495fb7623bdcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2868cff5d12aa630353ec415390c9e5b2113637115d9da47743aac4d29d80802",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T17:17:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a1714f68158b4f495ed3f6be42688496dbbca9a4e1f053b3af975850a9d096d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}