Pith Number

pith:W4YMSISV

pith:2018:W4YMSISVK6FTXYYBTBWE7UAUDX

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A Mathematical Model for Optimal Decisions in a Representative Democracy

Lirong Xia, Malik Magdon-Ismail

arxiv:1807.06157 v1 · 2018-07-17 · cs.GT · cs.DM · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4YMSISVK6FTXYYBTBWE7UAUDX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:16.296608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b730c92255578b3be301986c4fd0141de44c93286d9a5341db4ecbaeff376184

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06157 · arxiv_version: 1807.06157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06157 · pith_short_12: W4YMSISVK6FT · pith_short_16: W4YMSISVK6FTXYYB · pith_short_8: W4YMSISV

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/W4YMSISVK6FTXYYBTBWE7UAUDX \
  | 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: b730c92255578b3be301986c4fd0141de44c93286d9a5341db4ecbaeff376184

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a46d36d3a4c5669dae309f94538d4298a839d812e9e18fa00227b46e6725fdd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "econ.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T00:09:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e441d1d7a83a56b8c12c30cbb9a9b14ddf94408f4b25c873dc35605a7bcb7563"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}