Pith Number

pith:UFURAJZH

pith:2026:UFURAJZHPBLM46KPR5HF3ISTYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contracting with Imperfect Commitment: Minimal Canonical Contracts

Seungjin Han, Siyang Xiong

arxiv:2605.19884 v1 · 2026-05-19 · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UFURAJZHPBLM46KPR5HF3ISTYS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-20T01:06:19.108186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1691027277856ce794f8f4e5da253c4a7ccac956674637c6d937741855bf7ef

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19884 · arxiv_version: 2605.19884v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19884 · pith_short_12: UFURAJZHPBLM · pith_short_16: UFURAJZHPBLM46KP · pith_short_8: UFURAJZH

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/UFURAJZHPBLM46KPR5HF3ISTYS \
  | 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: a1691027277856ce794f8f4e5da253c4a7ccac956674637c6d937741855bf7ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4834638d6e08546ff81d6e8a06d749c4dfe06c254cb4038ccd25467a64c91aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T14:15:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8627b3e5f94058f6fc6ecd521308a441bd47470bf15cbd87071bc6294dd9e46f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}