Pith Number

pith:5DTTKGH2

pith:2025:5DTTKGH2N6ECXNOCMFXYVXN5HM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contracting a crowd of heterogeneous agents

Erhan Bayraktar, Guillermo Alonso Alvarez, Ibrahim Ekren

arxiv:2507.09415 v2 · 2025-07-12 · econ.TH · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5DTTKGH2N6ECXNOCMFXYVXN5HM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:30.562545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8e73518fa6f882bb5c2616f8addbd3b104a8df0e9c9009407d243d642d1fc96

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.09415 · arxiv_version: 2507.09415v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.09415 · pith_short_12: 5DTTKGH2N6EC · pith_short_16: 5DTTKGH2N6ECXNOC · pith_short_8: 5DTTKGH2

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/5DTTKGH2N6ECXNOCMFXYVXN5HM \
  | 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: e8e73518fa6f882bb5c2616f8addbd3b104a8df0e9c9009407d243d642d1fc96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c372c9b7c7e1514bf82de02c1a0fed117d7c58f871ef8d662c82f3b0e1efb385",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-12T22:46:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "689e06265ea0bb2d1b91cc59e4fc6f75f12ca805ddb1374d113911c4d181b94f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.09415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}