Pith Number

pith:RZ3P3S4Z

pith:2017:RZ3P3S4ZBC7YXKHVFWGNO6YZBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning in the Repeated Secretary Problem

Daniel G. Goldstein, James R. Wright, R. Preston McAfee, Siddharth Suri

arxiv:1708.08831 v1 · 2017-08-29 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZ3P3S4ZBC7YXKHVFWGNO6YZBZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:25.493108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e76fdcb9908bf8ba8f52d8cd77b190e707043e4dc809ba4b55d31a5cf01fdf4

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08831 · arxiv_version: 1708.08831v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08831 · pith_short_12: RZ3P3S4ZBC7Y · pith_short_16: RZ3P3S4ZBC7YXKHV · pith_short_8: RZ3P3S4Z

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/RZ3P3S4ZBC7YXKHVFWGNO6YZBZ \
  | 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: 8e76fdcb9908bf8ba8f52d8cd77b190e707043e4dc809ba4b55d31a5cf01fdf4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72552a9ee65079edb14e0f9a081caa62e520b5a66a6ebbf02cd8d4c0667e32f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-29T15:41:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "190494f49a97dad2f4b30385754df0cceb0abbe078469e853209629f255dbf13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}