Pith Number

pith:4YNAB2MC

pith:2016:4YNAB2MCYE7F5U2L7RPC7ZXZFQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signal to noise in matching markets

James Zou, S. Matthew Weinberg

arxiv:1612.09006 v1 · 2016-12-28 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4YNAB2MCYE7F5U2L7RPC7ZXZFQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:46.651832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e61a00e982c13e5ed34bfc5e2fe6f92c144119032dbb39ffbc58b0d2cd6bb4b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.09006 · arxiv_version: 1612.09006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.09006 · pith_short_12: 4YNAB2MCYE7F · pith_short_16: 4YNAB2MCYE7F5U2L · pith_short_8: 4YNAB2MC

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/4YNAB2MCYE7F5U2L7RPC7ZXZFQ \
  | 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: e61a00e982c13e5ed34bfc5e2fe6f92c144119032dbb39ffbc58b0d2cd6bb4b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42559624b4339b50376c5efa9921cc218b5e5b7274173b81e7e26aa9653eefda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-28T23:27:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31136589bda9e2801ed0664553f7970f96dc8a0782e78002bd67837be82e273c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.09006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}