Pith Number

pith:F7V3DRCV

pith:2025:F7V3DRCVRZIBQ2GSNZGRQYTUGD

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Trust of Strangers: a framework for analysis

Shawn Berry

arxiv:2501.04051 v1 · 2025-01-06 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F7V3DRCVRZIBQ2GSNZGRQYTUGD}

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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	2026-07-05T09:58:28.917383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2febb1c4558e501868d26e4d18627430d8bbdb26ee459276b99412e40a61fee4

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.04051 · arxiv_version: 2501.04051v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.04051 · pith_short_12: F7V3DRCVRZIB · pith_short_16: F7V3DRCVRZIBQ2GS · pith_short_8: F7V3DRCV

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/F7V3DRCVRZIBQ2GSNZGRQYTUGD \
  | 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: 2febb1c4558e501868d26e4d18627430d8bbdb26ee459276b99412e40a61fee4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dedffad135e4094400ce9d529a0033827c7d1140028fcb2beee9fe5887b83b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-06T20:52:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43898bfc13f160e3d1f281d3232329bc4e1c9337645597ef2ea43b5d7509ea93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.04051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}