Pith Number

pith:QJGG3H2L

pith:2014:QJGG3H2L4APJ7YNUMSELXRMTGO

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Conditional Analysis and a Principal-Agent problem

Julio Backhoff, Ulrich Horst

arxiv:1412.4698 v3 · 2014-12-15 · q-fin.MF · q-fin.PM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QJGG3H2L4APJ7YNUMSELXRMTGO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:30.927033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

824c6d9f4be01e9fe1b46488bbc593339fd248547f04a330b61663287d14fee1

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.4698 · arxiv_version: 1412.4698v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.4698 · pith_short_12: QJGG3H2L4APJ · pith_short_16: QJGG3H2L4APJ7YNU · pith_short_8: QJGG3H2L

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/QJGG3H2L4APJ7YNUMSELXRMTGO \
  | 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: 824c6d9f4be01e9fe1b46488bbc593339fd248547f04a330b61663287d14fee1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b0881d85fad8d97874794c86463546d753614e964ab3f98c5343999e4721364",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.PM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.MF",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-15T17:51:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "815c1566d28fd66ccc68b81b0cf2fffeb66c7e324a092461392be9942395c8af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.4698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}