Pith Number

pith:TIRPLJ4M

pith:2014:TIRPLJ4MVPEMSLW3F6OKO4Z63Q

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A Near-Optimal Mechanism for Impartial Selection

Adrian Vetta, Nicolas Bousquet, Sergey Norin

arxiv:1407.8535 v1 · 2014-07-31 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TIRPLJ4MVPEMSLW3F6OKO4Z63Q}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:04.938101Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a22f5a78cabc8c92edb2f9ca7733edc36155da6af17e2b83ba687672a5e9f00

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.8535 · arxiv_version: 1407.8535v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.8535 · pith_short_12: TIRPLJ4MVPEM · pith_short_16: TIRPLJ4MVPEMSLW3 · pith_short_8: TIRPLJ4M

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/TIRPLJ4MVPEMSLW3F6OKO4Z63Q \
  | 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: 9a22f5a78cabc8c92edb2f9ca7733edc36155da6af17e2b83ba687672a5e9f00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32955447e171dd1a9ebc6c802ad8f90aa25ddb3cee9d33428d275f4eee651b39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-31T19:02:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "673a3da30ae61e30911de568608151a09dc98a40bcc616d510ba70b7bc4b2925"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.8535",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}