Pith Number

pith:YGBAMVO5

pith:2026:YGBAMVO5JJADD7TTSKWO74XJIY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Path Portfolio Optimization: Defect, Lift, and the Price of Path Complexity

Miquel Noguer i Alonso

arxiv:2608.02355 v1 · 2026-08-03 · q-fin.PM

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGBAMVO5JJADD7TTSKWO74XJIY}

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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	2026-08-04T02:12:01.306934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1820655dd4a4031fe7392aceff2e946037a2c35de6516b7765d79c94dec53fa

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02355 · arxiv_version: 2608.02355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02355 · pith_short_12: YGBAMVO5JJAD · pith_short_16: YGBAMVO5JJADD7TT · pith_short_8: YGBAMVO5

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/YGBAMVO5JJADD7TTSKWO74XJIY \
  | 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: c1820655dd4a4031fe7392aceff2e946037a2c35de6516b7765d79c94dec53fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ca0bec15dfc5686eecb84c62de7765a85dda106af79ec3e93b64d6f49874121",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.PM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T15:06:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9751090f9e1a016e4922b5737b4545ddfc80746268a6d7d04ca3a1b8461d3b11"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}