Pith Number

pith:WQEK6QYO

pith:2025:WQEK6QYOTE3LEBWVV7JB2FTR6K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Harnessing Information in Incentive Design

Raj Kiriti Velicheti, Subhonmesh Bose, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar

arxiv:2509.02493 v1 · 2025-09-02 · cs.GT · cs.MA · cs.SY · eess.SY · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WQEK6QYOTE3LEBWVV7JB2FTR6K}

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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	2026-07-05T12:03:39.538397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b408af430e9936b206d5afd21d1671f2bba19535eacfe12043b83ab65020fa0b

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.02493 · arxiv_version: 2509.02493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.02493 · pith_short_12: WQEK6QYOTE3L · pith_short_16: WQEK6QYOTE3LEBWV · pith_short_8: WQEK6QYO

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/WQEK6QYOTE3LEBWVV7JB2FTR6K \
  | 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: b408af430e9936b206d5afd21d1671f2bba19535eacfe12043b83ab65020fa0b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68618c2a54696e765f718a92dbc3eecc6c31b1b4a4cfd7d6c14ab7e9a2e255f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-02T16:41:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d924299955fd20349b5ca7213be199b8e17b7321e2ab3f0ddc782c99a08af649"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.02493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}