Pith Number

pith:J4FZ3T3I

pith:2025:J4FZ3T3IQSKU22VYOLG5Y6Q3IR

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Robust Procurement: Bayesian Design under Worst-Case Approval Constraints

Alessandro Pavan, Debasis Mishra, Sanket Patil

arxiv:2512.08177 v2 · 2025-12-09 · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4FZ3T3IQSKU22VYOLG5Y6Q3IR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-28T00:21:33.182308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f0b9dcf6884954d6ab872cddc7a1b4456f7c7ba02b9c75f0d297776fc844c17

Aliases

arxiv: 2512.08177 · arxiv_version: 2512.08177v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.08177 · pith_short_12: J4FZ3T3IQSKU · pith_short_16: J4FZ3T3IQSKU22VY · pith_short_8: J4FZ3T3I

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/J4FZ3T3IQSKU22VYOLG5Y6Q3IR \
  | 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: 4f0b9dcf6884954d6ab872cddc7a1b4456f7c7ba02b9c75f0d297776fc844c17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54ef13972717565185eb02c2a9486ed95637e2dd0f0f2ec9173253380ea21208",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2025-12-09T02:13:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e98bd03f862aca8f25193122e2366538868f3370f7d70ce25305103cd40d667b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2512.08177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}