Pith Number

pith:QUU2QSGS

pith:2015:QUU2QSGSNEII7JJZOGQ2DVQTNP

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Coordination Complexity: Small Information Coordinating Large Populations

Aaron Roth, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Katrina Ligett, Rachel Cummings, Zhiwei Steven Wu

arxiv:1508.03735 v2 · 2015-08-15 · cs.DS · cs.GT · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QUU2QSGSNEII7JJZOGQ2DVQTNP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:23.594413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8529a848d269108fa53971a1a1d6136bed823ee51211bc23a4bf39a88d2aec27

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03735 · arxiv_version: 1508.03735v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03735 · pith_short_12: QUU2QSGSNEII · pith_short_16: QUU2QSGSNEII7JJZ · pith_short_8: QUU2QSGS

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/QUU2QSGSNEII7JJZOGQ2DVQTNP \
  | 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: 8529a848d269108fa53971a1a1d6136bed823ee51211bc23a4bf39a88d2aec27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1981db2d1c792201c3a34b8ec4f78862b1cc45a15cd182ecf8c2e81d61f96d81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-15T14:02:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2161b52bfce99acb60c44072821dd84b4f0da479e19327407f0c276ed5f1573f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}