Pith Number

pith:CTBW4R6U

pith:2018:CTBW4R6UHWDJD36O2FFZJ6LYTQ

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Importance in systems with interval decisions

Sascha Kurz

arxiv:1803.04138 v2 · 2018-03-12 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTBW4R6UHWDJD36O2FFZJ6LYTQ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:30.576523Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14c36e47d43d8691efced14b94f9789c19dc4c671ec169af1ca249f254785128

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04138 · arxiv_version: 1803.04138v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04138 · pith_short_12: CTBW4R6UHWDJ · pith_short_16: CTBW4R6UHWDJD36O · pith_short_8: CTBW4R6U

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/CTBW4R6UHWDJD36O2FFZJ6LYTQ \
  | 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: 14c36e47d43d8691efced14b94f9789c19dc4c671ec169af1ca249f254785128

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bae61f6ab050c3e6029317b45e0cb9470fc2fe06d3993b1f276e19d6d7da837",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-12T07:20:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56b279011ffb148736748dc12d7eec99d705dbcb281f8dabeabb29319d3736f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04138",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}