Pith Number

pith:ZYPPGK6Q

pith:2018:ZYPPGK6QRHCP27ZIF2733T6R5S

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Finite-State Contract Theory with a Principal and a Field of Agents

Peiqi Wang, Rene Carmona

arxiv:1808.07942 v1 · 2018-08-23 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYPPGK6QRHCP27ZIF2733T6R5S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:22.939901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce1ef32bd089c4fd7f282ebfbdcfd1ec9934821d3ce8856c930ade6c8e6be4e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07942 · arxiv_version: 1808.07942v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07942 · pith_short_12: ZYPPGK6QRHCP · pith_short_16: ZYPPGK6QRHCP27ZI · pith_short_8: ZYPPGK6Q

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/ZYPPGK6QRHCP27ZIF2733T6R5S \
  | 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: ce1ef32bd089c4fd7f282ebfbdcfd1ec9934821d3ce8856c930ade6c8e6be4e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30c8109946eff1a9759eb4c569307b00126dafdee36fa2e875160beca093ce4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-23T20:42:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a4c7d0f5324dc0ac5d118f08ff46900ee8f706befdad70e7897287de1ec1bb5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}