Pith Number

pith:UFUMF6YX

pith:2014:UFUMF6YXOGKFAEBRXLBXPIREES

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Platform Design

Jason D. Hartline, Tim Roughgarden

arxiv:1412.8518 v1 · 2014-12-30 · cs.GT · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UFUMF6YXOGKFAEBRXLBXPIREES}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:17.257203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a168c2fb177194501031bac377a22424b3853afb6ecc6efc953322902605ee15

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8518 · arxiv_version: 1412.8518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8518 · pith_short_12: UFUMF6YXOGKF · pith_short_16: UFUMF6YXOGKFAEBR · pith_short_8: UFUMF6YX

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/UFUMF6YXOGKFAEBRXLBXPIREES \
  | 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: a168c2fb177194501031bac377a22424b3853afb6ecc6efc953322902605ee15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9266175b8ea25ca4025e8e73f00d0ab24066c5a08fea92364af43a1c73b93095",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-30T01:04:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68c4bcce2164ab989022c105195eaf325174fa77ac4b55588cb0ebe1ad54ff9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}