Pith Number

pith:XVWCSOXD

pith:2014:XVWCSOXD6QMLM4GRB3MW6QOVEB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On terminating improvement in two-player games

Stephane Le Roux

arxiv:1409.6489 v2 · 2014-09-23 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVWCSOXD6QMLM4GRB3MW6QOVEB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:56.781185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd6c293ae3f418b670d10ed96f41d5204ca61070210a4f045e5eb38443cec372

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.6489 · arxiv_version: 1409.6489v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.6489 · pith_short_12: XVWCSOXD6QML · pith_short_16: XVWCSOXD6QMLM4GR · pith_short_8: XVWCSOXD

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/XVWCSOXD6QMLM4GRB3MW6QOVEB \
  | 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: bd6c293ae3f418b670d10ed96f41d5204ca61070210a4f045e5eb38443cec372

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82ea2ef11f2f46e1c3030e893d8b9a93651ffe6ff17868fb79095887c32f4e70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-23T11:16:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f25d021fbaeeeba4bd90dfc1557c965aa4a7b091c76846412c879ecc74411ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.6489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}