Pith Number

pith:PWJ5MQ6B

pith:2025:PWJ5MQ6BH66JLQYOP45LQUMZOX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximately Optimal Mechanism Design for Competing Sellers

Brendan Lucier, Raghuvansh R. Saxena

arxiv:2505.19453 v1 · 2025-05-26 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWJ5MQ6BH66JLQYOP45LQUMZOX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:09:30.414055Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d93d643c13fbc95c30e7f3ab8519975c7f82bd01f8178d26334f34aa2784b50

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.19453 · arxiv_version: 2505.19453v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19453 · pith_short_12: PWJ5MQ6BH66J · pith_short_16: PWJ5MQ6BH66JLQYO · pith_short_8: PWJ5MQ6B

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/PWJ5MQ6BH66JLQYOP45LQUMZOX \
  | 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: 7d93d643c13fbc95c30e7f3ab8519975c7f82bd01f8178d26334f34aa2784b50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb0e239d3c567b9ed9cef88f6e23d9c9e40fb62e4b478949c04956b0cf334753",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-26T03:19:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2694a2339844d98c89d8fe96924007c57a5fb503c9aa0e39c30ffeb88346fd2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.19453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}