Pith Number

pith:ALKEEUW7

pith:2026:ALKEEUW7CPJL3MEUCNCTV7NZLV

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Informal and Privatized Transit: Incentives, Efficiency and Coordination

Devansh Jalota, Matthew Tsao

arxiv:2602.10456 v3 · 2026-02-11 · cs.GT · econ.TH · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ALKEEUW7CPJL3MEUCNCTV7NZLV}

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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	2026-06-11T01:10:32.899750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02d44252df13d2bdb09413453afdb95d4b03ce1a2ca0060a7265da2e65f95ccf

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.10456 · arxiv_version: 2602.10456v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.10456 · pith_short_12: ALKEEUW7CPJL · pith_short_16: ALKEEUW7CPJL3MEU · pith_short_8: ALKEEUW7

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/ALKEEUW7CPJL3MEUCNCTV7NZLV \
  | 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: 02d44252df13d2bdb09413453afdb95d4b03ce1a2ca0060a7265da2e65f95ccf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01fb61d320b24e2d937982776c73e8839e79b2de31344e212053f6adda18a7d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.TH",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-11T02:55:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f288598ab2bec565c2d4cb182a22c75b5603a0a9b80d92364f05375e4d207e1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.10456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}