Pith Number

pith:VSCSUAX4

pith:2015:VSCSUAX4EUHI3KRTFDKGBPZL2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Welfare Maximization Entices Participation

Felix Brandt, Florian Brandl, Johannes Hofbauer

arxiv:1508.03538 v1 · 2015-08-14 · cs.GT · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSCSUAX4EUHI3KRTFDKGBPZL2C}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:17.447392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac852a02fc250e8daa3328d460bf2bd08b1454686ca1b093159df84f54274913

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03538 · arxiv_version: 1508.03538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03538 · pith_short_12: VSCSUAX4EUHI · pith_short_16: VSCSUAX4EUHI3KRT · pith_short_8: VSCSUAX4

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/VSCSUAX4EUHI3KRTFDKGBPZL2C \
  | 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: ac852a02fc250e8daa3328d460bf2bd08b1454686ca1b093159df84f54274913

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85161a3afa47eb64d4ccc37c93f42d72ed3d9d26967deda68fb5502649aefd54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-14T15:11:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e2e964dd49f3e3fc67275412320b7f7c3165885ab48490f37c7d266ae94f428"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}