Pith Number

pith:VLJOZGSW

pith:2026:VLJOZGSWCH2BF3P52LKJPSBKJR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Subsidizing Sequential Search

Brendan Lucier, Nicole Immorlica, Salvador Candelas

arxiv:2605.28985 v1 · 2026-05-27 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLJOZGSWCH2BF3P52LKJPSBKJR}

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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	2026-05-29T01:04:42.428252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aad2ec9a5611f412edfdd2d497c82a4c66fba4c485fcd5e35c4f7da9b3a9559f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.28985 · arxiv_version: 2605.28985v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.28985 · pith_short_12: VLJOZGSWCH2B · pith_short_16: VLJOZGSWCH2BF3P5 · pith_short_8: VLJOZGSW

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/VLJOZGSWCH2BF3P52LKJPSBKJR \
  | 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: aad2ec9a5611f412edfdd2d497c82a4c66fba4c485fcd5e35c4f7da9b3a9559f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21d9f4e9020ddffe1b466d66636cd6752ef9e4545a7b55814bbdd6e7b1297a46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T18:40:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2da95d22924ceb6565e915a7d22151c6349943094bf2b699d0af175618f16f0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.28985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}