Pith Number

pith:XZWNG6J6

pith:2013:XZWNG6J6EEKHPNVBOR7BX4NGZK

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I'd Rather Stay Stupid: The Advantage of Having Low Utility

Lior Seeman

arxiv:1312.4187 v1 · 2013-12-15 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZWNG6J6EEKHPNVBOR7BX4NGZK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:04:35.342086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be6cd3793e211477b6a1747e1bf1a6ca85f5e44c7e104fc0567969a27562102d

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.4187 · arxiv_version: 1312.4187v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.4187 · pith_short_12: XZWNG6J6EEKH · pith_short_16: XZWNG6J6EEKHPNVB · pith_short_8: XZWNG6J6

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/XZWNG6J6EEKHPNVBOR7BX4NGZK \
  | 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: be6cd3793e211477b6a1747e1bf1a6ca85f5e44c7e104fc0567969a27562102d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "892f4441fc6d8770baaf79cb3293f0b81311e545c4ee741664cc7bcb123a1fa4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-15T20:21:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54c78b630be5ca99f1ed5926f3ab60e21cd527caee4b88fd6aa3c07a6f662995"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.4187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}