Pith Number

pith:QBRUNJVG

pith:2017:QBRUNJVGTGAMRI7EKHCEFF2SHP

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The Interplay of Competition and Cooperation Among Service Providers

Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar, Xingran Chen

arxiv:1707.07080 v1 · 2017-07-22 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QBRUNJVGTGAMRI7EKHCEFF2SHP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:45.416722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

806346a6a69980c8a3e451c44297523be803d544599dbb19b391046a5383e744

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.07080 · arxiv_version: 1707.07080v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.07080 · pith_short_12: QBRUNJVGTGAM · pith_short_16: QBRUNJVGTGAMRI7E · pith_short_8: QBRUNJVG

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/QBRUNJVGTGAMRI7EKHCEFF2SHP \
  | 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: 806346a6a69980c8a3e451c44297523be803d544599dbb19b391046a5383e744

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36ec8cc5355c9aacaba0d4c21186885d9358c9c3d0f5c9d7cc557ddc1a5eb914",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-22T00:35:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e61433c2122e22c6ee4d8ba535fc09fb95895f9c369f4593e3a4824d1e23ca57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.07080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}