Pith Number

pith:OMD2K6AX

pith:2025:OMD2K6AXJ5ERKM4HQ7DI3ZRTAA

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Can We Govern the Agent-to-Agent Economy?

Tomer Jordi Chaffer

arxiv:2501.16606 v2 · 2025-01-28 · cs.MA · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OMD2K6AXJ5ERKM4HQ7DI3ZRTAA}

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:53:51.333464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7307a578174f4915338787c68de633002b8fb840bde3043630ad6db3abd5a7a5

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.16606 · arxiv_version: 2501.16606v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.16606 · pith_short_12: OMD2K6AXJ5ER · pith_short_16: OMD2K6AXJ5ERKM4H · pith_short_8: OMD2K6AX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OMD2K6AXJ5ERKM4HQ7DI3ZRTAA \
  | 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: 7307a578174f4915338787c68de633002b8fb840bde3043630ad6db3abd5a7a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa281325b00a2e157246ce1c83083f36eb10116cfcc508b465e3591ce1c3c5fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-28T00:50:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "507b61cb80c26fefb9ecca8aae0e5e23403f2c7949f05dff39033376c3fd90bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.16606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}