Pith Number

pith:D5QW5ASL

pith:2026:D5QW5ASLTLHXJQAQGN7EVQY2AC

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Competitive Search with a Faulty Satnav (GPS): When Probability Matching is Rational

Mark Broom, Steve Alpern

arxiv:2605.19440 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D5QW5ASLTLHXJQAQGN7EVQY2AC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-20T01:05:45.945337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f616e824b9acf74c010337e4ac31a00833b9ff4b80fce64b9a794a7f98d8bcc

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19440 · arxiv_version: 2605.19440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19440 · pith_short_12: D5QW5ASLTLHX · pith_short_16: D5QW5ASLTLHXJQAQ · pith_short_8: D5QW5ASL

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/D5QW5ASLTLHXJQAQGN7EVQY2AC \
  | 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: 1f616e824b9acf74c010337e4ac31a00833b9ff4b80fce64b9a794a7f98d8bcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b728fe628597dcaaa02151aec5af1b90fc07c97c3063e2569c86c7178941f23f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T06:52:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85bc4e02b5afaa31659af138e5b8211bdbeca3cd10acbd33b9b63f0bb966147a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}