Pith Number

pith:RQXEHWJ4

pith:2024:RQXEHWJ4VKQ3QPPRYZ4MPGUIRE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Combinatorial Selection with Costly Information

Amit Harlev, Dimitris Christou, Shuchi Chawla, Ziv Scully

arxiv:2412.03860 v2 · 2024-12-05 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQXEHWJ4VKQ3QPPRYZ4MPGUIRE}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:42:24.452826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c2e43d93caaa1b83df1c678c79a8889310675ba0e8f8650bebd0eeadc6d8fcb

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.03860 · arxiv_version: 2412.03860v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03860 · pith_short_12: RQXEHWJ4VKQ3 · pith_short_16: RQXEHWJ4VKQ3QPPR · pith_short_8: RQXEHWJ4

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/RQXEHWJ4VKQ3QPPRYZ4MPGUIRE \
  | 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: 8c2e43d93caaa1b83df1c678c79a8889310675ba0e8f8650bebd0eeadc6d8fcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2e9d32a2d4a46d8ac42096e0f1fa81d3c06fc014e995ff911893dfae99d89d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-05T04:12:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ace0fedca34a29f62fff3b751dbc88f0013e7c04dc2eeed7f599b1091936a925"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.03860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}