Pith Number

pith:SW6RYHKT

pith:2019:SW6RYHKT63ST3W63H6ZKU6OIMB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Markovian Price of Information

Anupam Gupta, Haotian Jiang, Sahil Singla, Ziv Scully

arxiv:1902.07856 v1 · 2019-02-21 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SW6RYHKT63ST3W63H6ZKU6OIMB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:53:03.676496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95bd1c1d53f6e53ddbdb3fb2aa79c860504c9363f7cc7e16f9705a18c1a697d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.07856 · arxiv_version: 1902.07856v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.07856 · pith_short_12: SW6RYHKT63ST · pith_short_16: SW6RYHKT63ST3W63 · pith_short_8: SW6RYHKT

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/SW6RYHKT63ST3W63H6ZKU6OIMB \
  | 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: 95bd1c1d53f6e53ddbdb3fb2aa79c860504c9363f7cc7e16f9705a18c1a697d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "219c01f542af79a8250a0509b6474a7ce4a7f2cff7aead198bfb168127516538",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-21T03:40:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1f5a69727c2f8a36f53f4efdfa1bf3c729dc679f876abcce487dd52bc7b965b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.07856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}