kaal:claim:6269518-006

The PageRank calculation used for citation-weighted payment is a zero-sum redistribution mechanism with respect to citation weights: any increase in the credit agent i attributes to agent j necessarily decreases agent i's own value.

Source quote, verbatim

The critical observation is that the PageRank calculation is a zero-sum redistribution mechanism with respect to citation weights: any increase in cx (credit attributed by i to j) necessarily decreases vi

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), II.A. Formal Statement of the Problem, p. 6
https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518 · source PDF

Cite as

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

Holds when

column-stochastic citation matrix with weights summing to one per agent
PageRank-derived value vector determines payment

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedcitation-and-knowledge

Verify

The quote above is an exact substring of the source PDF, whose sha256 is f096ecf5b41bb9ae8642facd54b9149c7b594de53a1cc32718a4d806b772f88f. Extraction method: pdf-text-layer.
Attestation record: colloquium/attestations/0a48ed77adc98961...json
Verify the binding yourself: curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-006.md | sha256sum