Pith Number

pith:VF6GIFGP

pith:2016:VF6GIFGPXOSRALF65SN7HQY6R6

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Rank-optimal weighting or "How to be best in the OECD Better Life Index?"

Christoph Brauer, Dirk A. Lorenz, Jan Lorenz

arxiv:1608.04556 v1 · 2016-08-16 · math.OC · q-fin.GN · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VF6GIFGPXOSRALF65SN7HQY6R6}

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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	2026-07-05T00:15:45.059134Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a97c6414cfbba5102cbeec9bf3c31e8fa99bb33fe4bcb0127ce32db33b809842

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04556 · arxiv_version: 1608.04556v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04556 · pith_short_12: VF6GIFGPXOSR · pith_short_16: VF6GIFGPXOSRALF6 · pith_short_8: VF6GIFGP

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/VF6GIFGPXOSRALF65SN7HQY6R6 \
  | 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: a97c6414cfbba5102cbeec9bf3c31e8fa99bb33fe4bcb0127ce32db33b809842

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c76d7ec8b557378454c29b1eb12cd6755b7913c5986706cead0e5c1b3d7f2ff3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-16T11:45:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "388fe8afa5dbe01d8c95edfaa40d5f6596b8a1188c612426703a015118f0c68c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}