Pith Number

pith:PCFVAEAN

pith:2017:PCFVAEANAOQCKOGADTF3PIGB3G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Backward induction in presence of cycles

Vladimir Gurvich

arxiv:1711.06760 v1 · 2017-11-17 · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCFVAEANAOQCKOGADTF3PIGB3G}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:15.696787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

788b50100d03a02538c01ccbb7a0c1d9af41d7cd0dd3857f82206cee1bfade21

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06760 · arxiv_version: 1711.06760v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06760 · pith_short_12: PCFVAEANAOQC · pith_short_16: PCFVAEANAOQCKOGA · pith_short_8: PCFVAEAN

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/PCFVAEANAOQCKOGADTF3PIGB3G \
  | 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: 788b50100d03a02538c01ccbb7a0c1d9af41d7cd0dd3857f82206cee1bfade21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5482d65a46f2d88d3b3e9e141788deed10a48788c1cc296d3c3a3b5ade037464",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-17T23:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfc125b7a42894738ffabbe007658f9f2c4a7d18bd83c1632eac1cae182238b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}