Pith Number

pith:OCGMJGVO

pith:2011:OCGMJGVO42NTEW2LTZPLRPBSAT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mechanism design with uncertain inputs (to err is human, to forgive divine)

Moshe Tennenholtz, Uriel Feige

arxiv:1103.2520 v1 · 2011-03-13 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OCGMJGVO42NTEW2LTZPLRPBSAT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:55.125998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

708cc49aaee69b325b4b9e5eb8bc3204c924db2b9c605d406f0073ad2c6afbf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.2520 · arxiv_version: 1103.2520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.2520 · pith_short_12: OCGMJGVO42NT · pith_short_16: OCGMJGVO42NTEW2L · pith_short_8: OCGMJGVO

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/OCGMJGVO42NTEW2LTZPLRPBSAT \
  | 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: 708cc49aaee69b325b4b9e5eb8bc3204c924db2b9c605d406f0073ad2c6afbf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cd7bd97cdb579ba7218553ddd7caedfca42e9905590cb143f92892f16cf61b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-13T14:13:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "680b451cd92f5089ec4379c76e06a74b45aee6d3628129a5ee80bd9c3351dcd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.2520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}