# kaal:claim:6269518-034

**Claim.** The citation honesty equilibrium is robust because it does not require agents to quantify precise citation weights; it requires only that citation patterns be directionally honest, which is what the validator assessment evaluates, thereby addressing the quantification impossibility.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- validators assess directional honesty rather than point estimates of attribution fractions

**Source quote.**

> It requires only that agents' citation patterns be directionally honest. That is, citation patterns demonstrate that agents do not systematically under-cite contributors whose work they relied upon.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), V.E. Proof of Honest Citation Equilibrium (Theorem 3b), page 15

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

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security, research-methods

**Keywords.** directional-honesty, quantification-impossibility, validators, robustness

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