Pith Number

pith:XD6DL4TL

pith:2012:XD6DL4TLTQMDORQA2EQDSND6YI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Conducting Truthful Surveys, Cheaply

Aaron Roth, Grant Schoenebeck

arxiv:1203.0353 v1 · 2012-03-02 · cs.GT · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XD6DL4TLTQMDORQA2EQDSND6YI}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:01:01.113503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8fc35f26b9c18374600d12039347ec21ec8762780e7bff8252c2f2c904880f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.0353 · arxiv_version: 1203.0353v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.0353 · pith_short_12: XD6DL4TLTQMD · pith_short_16: XD6DL4TLTQMDORQA · pith_short_8: XD6DL4TL

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/XD6DL4TLTQMDORQA2EQDSND6YI \
  | 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: b8fc35f26b9c18374600d12039347ec21ec8762780e7bff8252c2f2c904880f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ac5f751ca647b036a06f3af29ba594473be79cf0fd8fd9065606e617b39012e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-02T02:58:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fd20aa6c5bcec2b879f33a03206804bb8b4c170dde5ebde3dddf3ae39f69944"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.0353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}