Pith Number

pith:BSGZQXPX

pith:2023:BSGZQXPXAZWDAEG5DP4URQQ6AT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Fragility of Sparsity

Michal Koles\'ar, Sebastian T. Roelsgaard, Ulrich K. M\"uller

arxiv:2311.02299 v5 · 2023-11-04 · econ.EM · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSGZQXPXAZWDAEG5DP4URQQ6AT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:44:39.779943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c8d985df7066c3010dd1bf948c21e04f5d33846372841f915ab8e0adfc38d1d

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.02299 · arxiv_version: 2311.02299v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.02299 · pith_short_12: BSGZQXPXAZWD · pith_short_16: BSGZQXPXAZWDAEG5 · pith_short_8: BSGZQXPX

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/BSGZQXPXAZWDAEG5DP4URQQ6AT \
  | 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: 0c8d985df7066c3010dd1bf948c21e04f5d33846372841f915ab8e0adfc38d1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e487b6ae81b83f4189e06d53b9ae86ec7c8583279895676ceb0061dc2b4f8f53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-04T02:03:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c2d736f7995e47cb1b2999cb278f2ab5104851ff913fd71ac6d8cf58d8549f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.02299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}