Pith Number

pith:HLG6EFVN

pith:2016:HLG6EFVN5KANK5UEUQHNW7JJUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hiring Secretaries over Time: The Benefit of Concurrent Employment

Alexander Skopalik, Andreas T\"onnis, Daniel Schmand, John Fearnley, Martin Gairing, Max Klimm, Oliver G\"obel, Yann Disser

arxiv:1604.08125 v2 · 2016-04-27 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HLG6EFVN5KANK5UEUQHNW7JJUI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:30.708039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3acde216adea80d57684a40edb7d29a23a8e3ff8fea8c93a6fce20c0fd62f47e

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.08125 · arxiv_version: 1604.08125v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.08125 · pith_short_12: HLG6EFVN5KAN · pith_short_16: HLG6EFVN5KANK5UE · pith_short_8: HLG6EFVN

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/HLG6EFVN5KANK5UEUQHNW7JJUI \
  | 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: 3acde216adea80d57684a40edb7d29a23a8e3ff8fea8c93a6fce20c0fd62f47e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efafd9e13d9736ee9a84b38fa0891385568ba5a47343f1af9037ebd183c74d4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-27T16:14:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ffec23544c5228eb9505db9ff97f536067f0e17a7ba9df3f95f009f2eb0655c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.08125",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}