Pith Number

pith:TR23NCD4

pith:2025:TR23NCD4DYQMVKNETFH6JY2WVD

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Flattening Supply Chains: When do Technology Improvements lead to Disintermediation?

Brendan Lucier, Meena Jagadeesan, Nicole Immorlica, S. Nageeb Ali

arxiv:2502.20783 v1 · 2025-02-28 · cs.GT · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TR23NCD4DYQMVKNETFH6JY2WVD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:21:39.629220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c75b6887c1e20caa9a4994fe4e356a8d288c29f2bf354d9f1324ebd62025e90

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.20783 · arxiv_version: 2502.20783v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.20783 · pith_short_12: TR23NCD4DYQM · pith_short_16: TR23NCD4DYQMVKNE · pith_short_8: TR23NCD4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TR23NCD4DYQMVKNETFH6JY2WVD \
  | 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: 9c75b6887c1e20caa9a4994fe4e356a8d288c29f2bf354d9f1324ebd62025e90

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14adf3aab981315e9466f40af642686177e2b5ee9a806a67e27750befd309575",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-28T07:04:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "173a443365dcc92a9f591df9a531624d04c4d7f2a4f16deb23273b7e980f3015"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.20783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}