Pith Number

pith:V7QWIB5U

pith:2012:V7QWIB5U54OTIT5O2Y5OBN5G6E

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Will Central Counterparties become the New Rating Agencies?

Andrew Green, Chris Kenyon

arxiv:1211.6349 v2 · 2012-11-26 · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V7QWIB5U54OTIT5O2Y5OBN5G6E}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:21.703497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afe16407b4ef1d344faed63ae0b7a6f132d972cd1a315c91d9040b5ae702aff7

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.6349 · arxiv_version: 1211.6349v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.6349 · pith_short_12: V7QWIB5U54OT · pith_short_16: V7QWIB5U54OTIT5O · pith_short_8: V7QWIB5U

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/V7QWIB5U54OTIT5O2Y5OBN5G6E \
  | 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: afe16407b4ef1d344faed63ae0b7a6f132d972cd1a315c91d9040b5ae702aff7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "359415832795af9af2611016032f70f3e6d14833141d0f36c0af5f3be107cb9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-26T18:37:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efea0dd5539179d65ce91e67774fd647fcd9968f360632529f15641633e53688"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.6349",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}