Pith Number

pith:NMRCKYNH

pith:2018:NMRCKYNHK22CAXZEC3FDUMECSF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Improved Welfare Guarantee for First Price Auctions

Darrell Hoy, Sam Taggart, Zihe Wang

arxiv:1803.06707 v1 · 2018-03-18 · 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{NMRCKYNHK22CAXZEC3FDUMECSF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:45.206293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b222561a756b4205f2416ca3a3082914d7f893ada1338d87837cfaea973cc7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06707 · arxiv_version: 1803.06707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06707 · pith_short_12: NMRCKYNHK22C · pith_short_16: NMRCKYNHK22CAXZE · pith_short_8: NMRCKYNH

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/NMRCKYNHK22CAXZEC3FDUMECSF \
  | 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: 6b222561a756b4205f2416ca3a3082914d7f893ada1338d87837cfaea973cc7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "191fa780e8cce1e1090c2af62e8aa04bcede7cdf829403560f8c31ccaf762c1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-18T18:13:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "597aad56497ed6176fea2f0a982552f6cdaa3400eb8898a0010fec65b1790ed5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}