Pith Number

pith:6B5RWW73

pith:2019:6B5RWW73COVJGMAGG2WBCEJYPM

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Competitive Search in a Network

Spyros Angelopoulos, Thomas Lidbetter

arxiv:1908.02132 v1 · 2019-08-06 · math.OC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6B5RWW73COVJGMAGG2WBCEJYPM}

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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	2026-07-04T23:51:51.461260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f07b1b5bfb13aa93300636ac1111387b2539a58c88a9cf31ac191a614ce6b663

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.02132 · arxiv_version: 1908.02132v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.02132 · pith_short_12: 6B5RWW73COVJ · pith_short_16: 6B5RWW73COVJGMAG · pith_short_8: 6B5RWW73

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/6B5RWW73COVJGMAGG2WBCEJYPM \
  | 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: f07b1b5bfb13aa93300636ac1111387b2539a58c88a9cf31ac191a614ce6b663

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63e4dd320caf806ae35a5ccc5343bed59d358afc33d63df4cb7abaaf95000437",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-06T13:24:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0aa0e83d296e0a71937a5802cc7732d5b9d76a2bc543187b9066df3ec6e08a84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.02132",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}