Pith Number

pith:FZYALKS4

pith:2013:FZYALKS4TAQ4N73HG3ZYI6JL7Y

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Searching and Bargaining with Middlemen

Randall A. Berry, Thanh Nguyen, Vijay G. Subramanian

arxiv:1302.2869 v2 · 2013-02-12 · cs.GT · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FZYALKS4TAQ4N73HG3ZYI6JL7Y}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:19:04.440824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e7005aa5c9821c6ff6736f384792bfe35e915b674c35300aab0b47e4082e522

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.2869 · arxiv_version: 1302.2869v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.2869 · pith_short_12: FZYALKS4TAQ4 · pith_short_16: FZYALKS4TAQ4N73H · pith_short_8: FZYALKS4

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/FZYALKS4TAQ4N73HG3ZYI6JL7Y \
  | 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: 2e7005aa5c9821c6ff6736f384792bfe35e915b674c35300aab0b47e4082e522

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6885324644c72ac465989b266e31d8eb493d1e74df037414e6be875caa5fbe2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-12T17:29:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73e98c45fcab9f85571feddc89b1ecfafe914edb3426a6f5941c92d0bda068cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.2869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}