Pith Number

pith:ZSIJ5TVF

pith:2024:ZSIJ5TVFOTC5PQHZND2ET5CHUH

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Quantity Limits on Addictive Goods

Eric Gao

arxiv:2407.16987 v1 · 2024-07-24 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZSIJ5TVFOTC5PQHZND2ET5CHUH}

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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	2026-07-05T08:48:00.636790Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc909ecea574c5d7c0f968f449f447a1df98d1c23fcb1ff0e4a8312fe8b35892

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.16987 · arxiv_version: 2407.16987v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.16987 · pith_short_12: ZSIJ5TVFOTC5 · pith_short_16: ZSIJ5TVFOTC5PQHZ · pith_short_8: ZSIJ5TVF

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/ZSIJ5TVFOTC5PQHZND2ET5CHUH \
  | 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: cc909ecea574c5d7c0f968f449f447a1df98d1c23fcb1ff0e4a8312fe8b35892

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "588ffba80a9511d09810e2081b6fde02e9cd2340bb069a34d38e13f2ca48def1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-24T04:11:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aec8b4f4b3ad786d2b1c24f2dbc8c3ff579a4d436d102e5ca2b2d5d62eca4aaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.16987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}