Pith Number

pith:O4FV5Z3T

pith:2015:O4FV5Z3T7CKDRJY7W3ZJUSFT56

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Perfect Information vs Random Investigation: Safety Guidelines for a Consumer in the Jungle of Product Differentiation

A.E. Biondo, A. Giarlotta, A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda

arxiv:1507.01458 v1 · 2015-07-06 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O4FV5Z3T7CKDRJY7W3ZJUSFT56}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:36.297977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

770b5ee773f89438a71fb6f29a48b3efa907d03f5ab1a3b6c75080b2cdab15f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.01458 · arxiv_version: 1507.01458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.01458 · pith_short_12: O4FV5Z3T7CKD · pith_short_16: O4FV5Z3T7CKDRJY7 · pith_short_8: O4FV5Z3T

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/O4FV5Z3T7CKDRJY7W3ZJUSFT56 \
  | 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: 770b5ee773f89438a71fb6f29a48b3efa907d03f5ab1a3b6c75080b2cdab15f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "036c3ddaa33e97bce001070efcb2dc955bf2461ddaa98858ae4e247023dd4112",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-06T13:46:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f1a2ecef99e1c6263244e83aed7c028bec416adc61be007cebb44c2d1ffa657"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.01458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}