Pith Number

pith:3BTRX5NK

pith:2017:3BTRX5NKPMFLPBVSUIW3VDSA6E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Edge Caching Scheme Considering the Tradeoff Between the Diversity and Redundancy of Cached Content

Kun Yang, Lin Wang, Shuo Wang, Wenbo Wang, Xing Zhang

arxiv:1703.10794 v1 · 2017-03-31 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BTRX5NKPMFLPBVSUIW3VDSA6E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:32.710204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8671bf5aa7b0ab786b2a22dba8e40f12f1afd319c16636d34949b8ecee85b54

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10794 · arxiv_version: 1703.10794v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10794 · pith_short_12: 3BTRX5NKPMFL · pith_short_16: 3BTRX5NKPMFLPBVS · pith_short_8: 3BTRX5NK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3BTRX5NKPMFLPBVSUIW3VDSA6E \
  | 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: d8671bf5aa7b0ab786b2a22dba8e40f12f1afd319c16636d34949b8ecee85b54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52a8c2b7948be8777f580a2459c9ef83443b1fec28be84ab037655ae6c298d2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-31T08:34:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "517c405d62815914f230bc2531c91408eaf4e4771a70427b220a6225092277ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}