Pith Number

pith:LLFZBY3P

pith:2014:LLFZBY3PTRLDZUOIDPDF7UO4W4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The price of fairness for a small number of indivisible items

Sascha Kurz

arxiv:1406.5722 v1 · 2014-06-22 · cs.GT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LLFZBY3PTRLDZUOIDPDF7UO4W4}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T02:49:10.862150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5acb90e36f9c563cd1c81bc65fd1dcb723bb8166f0015292fd7598cb6f3c1be3

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.5722 · arxiv_version: 1406.5722v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.5722 · pith_short_12: LLFZBY3PTRLD · pith_short_16: LLFZBY3PTRLDZUOI · pith_short_8: LLFZBY3P

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/LLFZBY3PTRLDZUOIDPDF7UO4W4 \
  | 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: 5acb90e36f9c563cd1c81bc65fd1dcb723bb8166f0015292fd7598cb6f3c1be3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efa95e9b384d3873d1714cea98ff699f2906aadd41031753c8c2542d81e46304",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-22T13:01:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53a7d5ded109ff02bbef7ba2ee420ca8d880052bab783ade6fa344b395990695"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.5722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}