Pith Number

pith:CQO4R2JH

pith:2026:CQO4R2JHL7TLNCYXJND5PDGC6D

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Incumbent Advantage: Brand Bias and Cognitive Manipulation Dynamics in LLM Recommendation Systems

Xi Chu, Yupeng Hou

arxiv:2606.17443 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQO4R2JHL7TLNCYXJND5PDGC6D}

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:12.958750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

141dc8e9275fe6b68b174b47d78cc2f0ca7ff3093a0a2aa7630d1b9f0942ac59

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17443 · arxiv_version: 2606.17443v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17443 · pith_short_12: CQO4R2JHL7TL · pith_short_16: CQO4R2JHL7TLNCYX · pith_short_8: CQO4R2JH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CQO4R2JHL7TLNCYXJND5PDGC6D \
  | 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: 141dc8e9275fe6b68b174b47d78cc2f0ca7ff3093a0a2aa7630d1b9f0942ac59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93cf8ac43d952be1e5e69a7d31858cfef2b7c4fd6dd829906e4cb564405c1932",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T02:54:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fd440630b99c57de41d07cd7c5fc9ab91dcced92a8343d3ae89ba9bf1c607a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}