Pith Number

pith:JGW3G6K2

pith:2021:JGW3G6K2LYSCL2UJLTDHXSHUVF

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Policy choices can help keep 4G and 5G universal broadband affordable

Edward J Oughton, Jim W Hall, Niccol\`o Comini, Vivien Foster

arxiv:2101.07820 v4 · 2021-01-19 · econ.GN · cs.CY · cs.NI · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JGW3G6K2LYSCL2UJLTDHXSHUVF}

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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	2026-07-05T02:16:52.662886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49adb3795a5e2425ea895cc67bc8f4a96713fc77074dad05c6424bcf0c87a161

Aliases

arxiv: 2101.07820 · arxiv_version: 2101.07820v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.07820 · pith_short_12: JGW3G6K2LYSC · pith_short_16: JGW3G6K2LYSCL2UJ · pith_short_8: JGW3G6K2

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/JGW3G6K2LYSCL2UJLTDHXSHUVF \
  | 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: 49adb3795a5e2425ea895cc67bc8f4a96713fc77074dad05c6424bcf0c87a161

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1adfeadaaf751edb74443d99980c7ebdc11a2a71ccc05d713e583464b152c8f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.NI",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2021-01-19T19:04:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b43034217bfd1ba428e75d0b095d4acfa10b5f4e8e1b4caf1404740886383f69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2101.07820",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}