Pith Number

pith:5KIU62Z6

pith:2015:5KIU62Z6HHNN6XVX27JVKKHMOF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Collusion-Proof Procurement Expensive?

Gaurab Aryal, Maria F. Gabrielli

arxiv:1508.05353 v3 · 2015-05-26 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KIU62Z6HHNN6XVX27JVKKHMOF}

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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	2026-06-04T17:09:28.612970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea914f6b3e39dadf5eb7d7d35528ec715b8cce7b7d72b61b375fd73ca2ca305f

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.05353 · arxiv_version: 1508.05353v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.05353 · pith_short_12: 5KIU62Z6HHNN · pith_short_16: 5KIU62Z6HHNN6XVX · pith_short_8: 5KIU62Z6

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/5KIU62Z6HHNN6XVX27JVKKHMOF \
  | 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: ea914f6b3e39dadf5eb7d7d35528ec715b8cce7b7d72b61b375fd73ca2ca305f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dff9020101da9571c086e4d8209a35259a3a562777946fa9ac208bb534cb74f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-26T01:48:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07c4e00c6dff6b6904b2708313a5460c90f0b6f91af70ef1fc22657e2f9e0358"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.05353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}