Pith Number

pith:WIBN6CCZ

pith:2017:WIBN6CCZCISHTWENEDI3V27N6I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Cost Sharing

Eric Balkanski, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Umar Syed

arxiv:1703.03111 v1 · 2017-03-09 · cs.GT · cs.LG

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIBN6CCZCISHTWENEDI3V27N6I}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:01.503541Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b202df0859122479d88d20d1baebedf231dbd93d03d1a74513286af5a633c56b

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03111 · arxiv_version: 1703.03111v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03111 · pith_short_12: WIBN6CCZCISH · pith_short_16: WIBN6CCZCISHTWEN · pith_short_8: WIBN6CCZ

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/WIBN6CCZCISHTWENEDI3V27N6I \
  | 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: b202df0859122479d88d20d1baebedf231dbd93d03d1a74513286af5a633c56b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "433ed45e8db1ccf62d0c7e93a57d7ef8a8c95b80d62f05babea400cd2b3548e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-09T02:50:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e39ebe28b90e10b680c45c98f81c37fee7fc9222808123be23ef20f6b2d6a5f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03111",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}