Pith Number

pith:A5VJSYTM

pith:2018:A5VJSYTMJPAF5CGLEXSRDOBZG7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The algebra of predicting agents

Joe Bolt, Jules Hedges, Viktor Winschel

arxiv:1803.10131 v1 · 2018-03-27 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5VJSYTMJPAF5CGLEXSRDOBZG7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:00.332164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

076a99626c4bc05e88cb25e511b83937e402f6db4ddcddb0f8e3c67320684f8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.10131 · arxiv_version: 1803.10131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.10131 · pith_short_12: A5VJSYTMJPAF · pith_short_16: A5VJSYTMJPAF5CGL · pith_short_8: A5VJSYTM

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5VJSYTMJPAF5CGLEXSRDOBZG7 \
  | 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: 076a99626c4bc05e88cb25e511b83937e402f6db4ddcddb0f8e3c67320684f8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c57d8e2e81562111a60d5bd69895b8b6eff1a5047a1fa37b5e4edbbed0f3bda4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-27T15:22:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d8746bc6a5a6a7c45fb817e3e85871164f50ed0971c0c5c6a7661eb8aa92f4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.10131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}