Pith Number

pith:Q3YO23US

pith:2015:Q3YO23USYGQFHCMEP6SXNZGIVV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inducing Approximately Optimal Flow Using Truthful Mediators

Aaron Roth, Jonathan Ullman, Ryan Rogers, Zhiwei Steven Wu

arxiv:1502.04019 v2 · 2015-02-13 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3YO23USYGQFHCMEP6SXNZGIVV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:38.993795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86f0ed6e92c1a05389847fa576e4c8ad45aefa2f009c4bec70ddd055d65bdea4

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.04019 · arxiv_version: 1502.04019v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.04019 · pith_short_12: Q3YO23USYGQF · pith_short_16: Q3YO23USYGQFHCME · pith_short_8: Q3YO23US

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/Q3YO23USYGQFHCMEP6SXNZGIVV \
  | 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: 86f0ed6e92c1a05389847fa576e4c8ad45aefa2f009c4bec70ddd055d65bdea4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cc1fa70f7f8b7daaefffde17a846eb1b046088219787920f785d96adb3c0c63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-13T15:01:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b65aca43cea2da5467d0ef8fdd21c2f8a56d0ca3305be1f051635057d5d05cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.04019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}