Pith Number

pith:PYSYCSVA

pith:2025:PYSYCSVAK2ZBMAKKY2S66XAJRC

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Pay for The Second-Best Service: A Game-Theoretic Approach Against Dishonest LLM Providers

Miao Li, Sitong Liu, Tianxing He, Yixin Tao, Yuhan Cao, Yu Wang

arxiv:2511.00847 v5 · 2025-11-02 · cs.GT · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYSYCSVAK2ZBMAKKY2S66XAJRC}

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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	2026-08-03T01:12:13.760095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e25814aa056b216014ac6a5ef5c098898f7f445b7e523f308159a173c62902c

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.00847 · arxiv_version: 2511.00847v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.00847 · pith_short_12: PYSYCSVAK2ZB · pith_short_16: PYSYCSVAK2ZBMAKK · pith_short_8: PYSYCSVA

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/PYSYCSVAK2ZBMAKKY2S66XAJRC \
  | 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: 7e25814aa056b216014ac6a5ef5c098898f7f445b7e523f308159a173c62902c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18fcf3467fbbda6711174a1919de6ae7a9efe88d82491ba75b276740b41dd776",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-02T08:18:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a968574ad95f31706a1fcb5ef0c433f2267e521673d21564dd7f97e2d2b9b07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.00847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}