Pith Number

pith:LSZX6W7I

pith:2019:LSZX6W7IQX4JZTYSUTWKRCQY36

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal forward contract design for inventory: a value-of-waiting analysis

A. J. Ostaszewski, Roy O. Davies

arxiv:1904.04725 v1 · 2019-04-09 · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LSZX6W7IQX4JZTYSUTWKRCQY36}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:58.312814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5cb37f5be885f89ccf12a4eca88a18df80793e90dac9bee174801b357b42a9f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.04725 · arxiv_version: 1904.04725v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.04725 · pith_short_12: LSZX6W7IQX4J · pith_short_16: LSZX6W7IQX4JZTYS · pith_short_8: LSZX6W7I

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/LSZX6W7IQX4JZTYSUTWKRCQY36 \
  | 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: 5cb37f5be885f89ccf12a4eca88a18df80793e90dac9bee174801b357b42a9f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ef3407ee06728783483355be09853c72df9086fdc0cc5d390bac7f352523cbd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-09T15:14:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc1f2c86485af2ccf1528a5019310d70e1dc1672595761c55b5173f7e899c821"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.04725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}