Pith Number

pith:TXC6NDYI

pith:2026:TXC6NDYIIRSE26XSDRTH7TQYEE

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The Shared Discovery Paradox: How a One-Answer Rule Turns Better Information into Worse Search

Yohei Nakajima

arxiv:2607.18045 v1 · 2026-07-20 · cs.AI · cs.GT · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TXC6NDYIIRSE26XSDRTH7TQYEE}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-21T02:22:13.173794Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9dc5e68f0844644d7af21c667fce18212bc536420448474d4afe4326b6848f93

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18045 · arxiv_version: 2607.18045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18045 · pith_short_12: TXC6NDYIIRSE · pith_short_16: TXC6NDYIIRSE26XS · pith_short_8: TXC6NDYI

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/TXC6NDYIIRSE26XSDRTH7TQYEE \
  | 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: 9dc5e68f0844644d7af21c667fce18212bc536420448474d4afe4326b6848f93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "211a8b685fd2962968a92e476c830bacdd341d8ac7a6574892839ee8a7b54730",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T15:14:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b0072190a1d20fd3fded60f572fbdf280b856087f36bcd9607a9fdd6ea1a561"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}