Pith Number

pith:NIPP4REF

pith:2025:NIPP4REFQIYEI7VYU4AWZRP5DG

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Learning to Charge More: A Theoretical Study of Collusion by Q-Learning Agents

Cristian Chica, Gilad Lerman, Yinglong Guo

arxiv:2505.22909 v1 · 2025-05-28 · econ.GN · cs.AI · cs.GT · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIPP4REFQIYEI7VYU4AWZRP5DG}

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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	2026-07-05T11:11:51.695843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a1efe44858230447eb8a7016cc5fd19ba74a8de9af734e058d3425ea8c978fb

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.22909 · arxiv_version: 2505.22909v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22909 · pith_short_12: NIPP4REFQIYE · pith_short_16: NIPP4REFQIYEI7VY · pith_short_8: NIPP4REF

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/NIPP4REFQIYEI7VYU4AWZRP5DG \
  | 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: 6a1efe44858230447eb8a7016cc5fd19ba74a8de9af734e058d3425ea8c978fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2ecd0811ee504a1e4add2d1f278c1d26a2915f7d2478ac1c7a536d44f381ee0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.GT",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-28T22:18:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9889e1eb9f3c540fa859b9d815ae6c50e76e9cbea3ff038ea8b57fecd1d25bc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.22909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}