Pith Number

pith:YULW2JCS

pith:2026:YULW2JCSGPPT43LDV2EWXYWFKS

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From Product Search to Preference Articulation: The Economics of Agentic Commerce

Fasheng Xu, Kaiwen Luo, Lingxiu Dong

arxiv:2608.08395 v1 · 2026-08-09 · econ.TH · cs.AI · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YULW2JCSGPPT43LDV2EWXYWFKS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-11T01:22:31.929336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5176d245233df3e6d63ae896be2c5549928e251d2532d9a0240fcff4ea06556

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08395 · arxiv_version: 2608.08395v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08395 · pith_short_12: YULW2JCSGPPT · pith_short_16: YULW2JCSGPPT43LD · pith_short_8: YULW2JCS

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/YULW2JCSGPPT43LDV2EWXYWFKS \
  | 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: c5176d245233df3e6d63ae896be2c5549928e251d2532d9a0240fcff4ea06556

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2700a536bf58bef9b9e22df71a99ca50b08eb1a0cd1981564be813ee4387a502",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T01:09:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "454151d74c40a7b4bd5e4c81105ca4c7711b29cc87eef50c9534079573ff0f4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}