Pith Number

pith:O2D2WIMQ

pith:2018:O2D2WIMQ2ZCO4ZJAS4W6AP7OPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When is it best to follow the leader?

L.C.G. Rogers, Philip Ernst, Quan Zhou

arxiv:1804.05479 v1 · 2018-04-16 · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O2D2WIMQ2ZCO4ZJAS4W6AP7OPV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:28.044028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7687ab2190d644ee6520972de03fee7d5d58e7bce3c6f5ff2a346215f9db6714

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05479 · arxiv_version: 1804.05479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05479 · pith_short_12: O2D2WIMQ2ZCO · pith_short_16: O2D2WIMQ2ZCO4ZJA · pith_short_8: O2D2WIMQ

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/O2D2WIMQ2ZCO4ZJAS4W6AP7OPV \
  | 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: 7687ab2190d644ee6520972de03fee7d5d58e7bce3c6f5ff2a346215f9db6714

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee8066966e33228ac6af173e994d57b6ef3160622560b386eaa9385e9d5c54ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T02:23:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43c42efd7cc6b766d53dcc2ae14960871d93c501fdf0bf2b850cb95892c2fc9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}