Pith Number

pith:NVUYYZTQ

pith:2017:NVUYYZTQG2F5RHW2GYSBU3WBNG

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No truthful mechanism can be better than $n$ approximate for two natural problems

Akaki Mamageishvili, Paolo Penna, Stefano Leucci

arxiv:1712.06709 v2 · 2017-12-18 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVUYYZTQG2F5RHW2GYSBU3WBNG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:40.636290Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d698c6670368bd89eda36241a6ec1698d2ac3365ab0fae167290ecb1b94edc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06709 · arxiv_version: 1712.06709v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06709 · pith_short_12: NVUYYZTQG2F5 · pith_short_16: NVUYYZTQG2F5RHW2 · pith_short_8: NVUYYZTQ

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/NVUYYZTQG2F5RHW2GYSBU3WBNG \
  | 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: 6d698c6670368bd89eda36241a6ec1698d2ac3365ab0fae167290ecb1b94edc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cda4a0adf19a75b665add8ba8e0d7b8c0ac463321152abfad36cd4823874e36",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T22:52:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "651ec4eaadf6b20a6bb8f43567b481768e66af368feb3f0823dadd310dae096b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06709",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}