Pith Number

pith:R2MVS6WR

pith:2026:R2MVS6WRN4TE3WXCIYTKNGKOGT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Auditing Algorithmic Collusion from Strategy Graphs

Janusz M. Meylahn, Nicolas Eschenbaum

arxiv:2608.07098 v1 · 2026-08-07 · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2MVS6WRN4TE3WXCIYTKNGKOGT}

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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	2026-08-10T01:13:12.786456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e99597ad16f264ddae24626a6994e34c1d85992192fa31e06bd35d4864f21a7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07098 · arxiv_version: 2608.07098v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07098 · pith_short_12: R2MVS6WRN4TE · pith_short_16: R2MVS6WRN4TE3WXC · pith_short_8: R2MVS6WR

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/R2MVS6WRN4TE3WXCIYTKNGKOGT \
  | 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: 8e99597ad16f264ddae24626a6994e34c1d85992192fa31e06bd35d4864f21a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4ceed6ca2291684128ffdb8876ab602f8ec533c1ef4f34bdcf3c07d3ac501a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T10:46:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a978d7cb16464a2f6778b86c375d17e652e963e5569e77c1562329ccfaab5877"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07098",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}