Pith Number

pith:5VXV3BQJ

pith:2012:5VXV3BQJYQTWI5PCLSWCLKR3GZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

eBay's Market Intermediation Problem

Christopher A. Wilkens, Kamal Jain

arxiv:1209.5348 v2 · 2012-09-24 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VXV3BQJYQTWI5PCLSWCLKR3GZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:29.348083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed6f5d8609c4276475e25cac25aa3b367f59d103d46e0043411aba9e18994d62

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.5348 · arxiv_version: 1209.5348v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.5348 · pith_short_12: 5VXV3BQJYQTW · pith_short_16: 5VXV3BQJYQTWI5PC · pith_short_8: 5VXV3BQJ

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/5VXV3BQJYQTWI5PCLSWCLKR3GZ \
  | 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: ed6f5d8609c4276475e25cac25aa3b367f59d103d46e0043411aba9e18994d62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb269b4d12721b6425f88e1d0ca9914104a98867edc1c604d9900259f0378180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-24T18:01:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ba3cb584236ff7136f78f0f7a94dcb16047b362cc55aaab88923beaf4cf8127"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.5348",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}