Pith Number

pith:RQ4ZF3KS

pith:2023:RQ4ZF3KSIPCPBBRXVQZ4JNMBKG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

(Robust) Information Acquisition Design

Daniel Luo, Eric Gao

arxiv:2312.02465 v12 · 2023-12-05 · econ.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQ4ZF3KSIPCPBBRXVQZ4JNMBKG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-26T01:15:12.673517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c3992ed5243c4f08637ac33c4b581519861a210e59adcaf90c5fdf4e5917ad5

Aliases

arxiv: 2312.02465 · arxiv_version: 2312.02465v12 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.02465 · pith_short_12: RQ4ZF3KSIPCP · pith_short_16: RQ4ZF3KSIPCPBBRX · pith_short_8: RQ4ZF3KS

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/RQ4ZF3KSIPCPBBRXVQZ4JNMBKG \
  | 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: 8c3992ed5243c4f08637ac33c4b581519861a210e59adcaf90c5fdf4e5917ad5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee13fc0e7b6d3482bd26d5faf7a910d86e64ef0952e855248cdf46cb96846150",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-05T03:34:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d99d8934edf90752674ce70e94251b22ee4763e56fb05fa252a8e7937624d479"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2312.02465",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 12
  }
}