Pith Number

pith:4TY56JEM

pith:2014:4TY56JEMFA7NLXEP7UJANS74BD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Provably Manipulation-Resistant Reputation Systems

Paul Christiano

arxiv:1411.1127 v1 · 2014-11-05 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4TY56JEMFA7NLXEP7UJANS74BD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:38:36.253535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4f1df248c283ed5dc8ffd1206cbfc08d1806f6d334d4bb67d0ce29e2805ca1b

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1127 · arxiv_version: 1411.1127v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1127 · pith_short_12: 4TY56JEMFA7N · pith_short_16: 4TY56JEMFA7NLXEP · pith_short_8: 4TY56JEM

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/4TY56JEMFA7NLXEP7UJANS74BD \
  | 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: e4f1df248c283ed5dc8ffd1206cbfc08d1806f6d334d4bb67d0ce29e2805ca1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0962c8a805bb8168d9d0fa74dc3251d1d1449a55cc291de527d1c7a09d54267a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-05T01:28:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64fa8e059b03b868bc31af0ce2b6ff357e701e1225b719d4140f0dc549c9efaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}