Pith Number

pith:BA4IKSMM

pith:2023:BA4IKSMMYJK3VLHKLI2T7RW47V

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Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design

Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun S\"onmez

arxiv:2303.06564 v2 · 2023-03-12 · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BA4IKSMMYJK3VLHKLI2T7RW47V}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:51:30.215592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

083885498cc255baacea5a353fc6dcfd64c06afbbac0abe7908313af0db0ac32

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.06564 · arxiv_version: 2303.06564v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.06564 · pith_short_12: BA4IKSMMYJK3 · pith_short_16: BA4IKSMMYJK3VLHK · pith_short_8: BA4IKSMM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BA4IKSMMYJK3VLHKLI2T7RW47V \
  | 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: 083885498cc255baacea5a353fc6dcfd64c06afbbac0abe7908313af0db0ac32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "402770a2dde8c7cbe982c8b0e5fadb39203f2f3433c511630a268dbdc2a47a96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-12T04:10:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "853c87eee4c65f92cad31aee8e1a7be9fae7d1ef1734d0defbf28638ef96b9fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.06564",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}