Pith Number

pith:O4VMYSY5

pith:2018:O4VMYSY5VRLMNWJB3GNLDNQSKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Downstream Effects of Affirmative Action

Aaron Roth, Juba Ziani, Sampath Kannan

arxiv:1808.09004 v1 · 2018-08-27 · cs.GT · cs.LG · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O4VMYSY5VRLMNWJB3GNLDNQSKY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:04.916459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

772acc4b1dac56c6d921d99ab1b612563230d496f1062d6002ba4ede745d51e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.09004 · arxiv_version: 1808.09004v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.09004 · pith_short_12: O4VMYSY5VRLM · pith_short_16: O4VMYSY5VRLMNWJB · pith_short_8: O4VMYSY5

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/O4VMYSY5VRLMNWJB3GNLDNQSKY \
  | 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: 772acc4b1dac56c6d921d99ab1b612563230d496f1062d6002ba4ede745d51e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "590144739eedc2bf281e7a71560e1a1f44550742c519b3ac2bffca542f1c66b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "econ.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-27T19:15:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4f4b9406b8d635fcbbecb2ccbe02aa86ef075e6fbd0a0ab567d7762086c94fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.09004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}