Pith Number

pith:CJQDZN3N

pith:2017:CJQDZN3NNT2JZ5FAVSBKTTAXOH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Short Solution to the Many-Player Silent Duel with Arbitrary Consolation Prize

J. V. Howard, Steve Alpern

arxiv:1712.00274 v1 · 2017-12-01 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJQDZN3NNT2JZ5FAVSBKTTAXOH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:06.704269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12603cb76d6cf49cf4a0ac82a9cc1771e484b16ac9682236ad23a85197919b35

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00274 · arxiv_version: 1712.00274v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00274 · pith_short_12: CJQDZN3NNT2J · pith_short_16: CJQDZN3NNT2JZ5FA · pith_short_8: CJQDZN3N

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/CJQDZN3NNT2JZ5FAVSBKTTAXOH \
  | 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: 12603cb76d6cf49cf4a0ac82a9cc1771e484b16ac9682236ad23a85197919b35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "839f370116c5916ba6acfc6e262284d54401bb724ec05f3035060be8bb602768",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T11:14:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec6f44ec8c15e663198ed2f65c3a330c7a02155093f66661e6aa5b9acbd5c3fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00274",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}