Pith Number

pith:IDU6YLMS

pith:2026:IDU6YLMSE56DGKQ3UHPUQ4T4NR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Motivating Innovation with a Misspecified Roadmap

Florian Mudekereza

arxiv:2602.18879 v2 · 2026-02-21 · econ.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDU6YLMSE56DGKQ3UHPUQ4T4NR}

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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	2026-06-29T01:14:29.245206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40e9ec2d92277c332a1ba1df48727c6c58f3d048556306c552e88f4b469e9aa5

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.18879 · arxiv_version: 2602.18879v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.18879 · pith_short_12: IDU6YLMSE56D · pith_short_16: IDU6YLMSE56DGKQ3 · pith_short_8: IDU6YLMS

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/IDU6YLMSE56DGKQ3UHPUQ4T4NR \
  | 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: 40e9ec2d92277c332a1ba1df48727c6c58f3d048556306c552e88f4b469e9aa5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4f3bd8dbd7a7ad253314ec0cbb01b6ee972785daf2123b53c2afbfc03512eb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-21T15:50:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19471f4a30e86961dd6a4f8db62acf9ed346a74acb0c9fb214c182f7f98472ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.18879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}