Pith Number

pith:OQYH5SSZ

pith:2006:OQYH5SSZWCSTZGQDKORRWDTYFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Preference fusion when the number of alternatives exceeds two: indirect scoring procedures

Elena Shamis, Pavel Chebotarev

arxiv:math/0602171 v3 · 2006-02-08 · math.OC · cs.MA · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OQYH5SSZWCSTZGQDKORRWDTYFN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:11:18.331842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74307eca59b0a53c9a0353a31b0e782b5c62e1680c73568ede47fc6d7ed7050d

Aliases

arxiv: math/0602171 · arxiv_version: math/0602171v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0602171 · pith_short_12: OQYH5SSZWCST · pith_short_16: OQYH5SSZWCSTZGQD · pith_short_8: OQYH5SSZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OQYH5SSZWCSTZGQDKORRWDTYFN \
  | 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: 74307eca59b0a53c9a0353a31b0e782b5c62e1680c73568ede47fc6d7ed7050d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b164c7de00f2265198555439d6c7811682899cff3dc828faa4217d7cdba7635",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-08T20:23:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20952294c96b0c05c8d023046c2fb88b14d1a5d95d3ca8b01255714d97d1a800"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0602171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}