Pith Number

pith:OEJNR7NM

pith:2026:OEJNR7NMLB6KIOFBQC2NSNIVYX

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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

arxiv:2603.20617 v2 · 2026-03-21 · econ.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OEJNR7NMLB6KIOFBQC2NSNIVYX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-03T01:05:12.026149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7112d8fdac587ca438a180b4d93515c5d9b3096ab73dbe9e699d9b509d4c1ddb

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.20617 · arxiv_version: 2603.20617v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.20617 · pith_short_12: OEJNR7NMLB6K · pith_short_16: OEJNR7NMLB6KIOFB · pith_short_8: OEJNR7NM

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/OEJNR7NMLB6KIOFBQC2NSNIVYX \
  | 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: 7112d8fdac587ca438a180b4d93515c5d9b3096ab73dbe9e699d9b509d4c1ddb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f26fd3a7549563c6b6d5d53db112ad4a9628d939383273684ce5f8bd6296b73f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-21T03:25:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9295935722d459c53d2e84f8a7b8b70bd7975904a8692cba83458439aefbda5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.20617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}