Pith Number

pith:BV4O2RAB

pith:2013:BV4O2RAB37HYJDNRZDXA2ZOTEG

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VCG Auction Mechanism Cost Expectations and Variances

Gregory B. Sorkin, Svante Janson

arxiv:1310.1777 v1 · 2013-10-07 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BV4O2RAB37HYJDNRZDXA2ZOTEG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:11:10.608721Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d78ed4401dfcf848db1c8ee0d65d321b9574a7fc29ac897c3ab26d2db18039b

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.1777 · arxiv_version: 1310.1777v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.1777 · pith_short_12: BV4O2RAB37HY · pith_short_16: BV4O2RAB37HYJDNR · pith_short_8: BV4O2RAB

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/BV4O2RAB37HYJDNRZDXA2ZOTEG \
  | 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: 0d78ed4401dfcf848db1c8ee0d65d321b9574a7fc29ac897c3ab26d2db18039b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d09a3a101385a3d572594a4c5567ebb18331c477c663c76b08757bd93e71194e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-07T13:26:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adb0dddce9fad50891c83c8abe242ba94d75e9ee8c8e46519595c2ea8325b186"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.1777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}