Pith Number

pith:3DZWFXTI

pith:2012:3DZWFXTIJLCJCD5F4LFXX7JO4M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Incentives for P2P-Assisted Content Distribution: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

Adam Wierman, Sachin Adlakha, Srinivas Shakkottai, Vinod Ramaswamy

arxiv:1212.3853 v1 · 2012-12-17 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3DZWFXTIJLCJCD5F4LFXX7JO4M}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:22.253852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8f362de684ac4910fa5e2cb7bfd2ee30718323947e8e20cf7eeba2eb54415dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.3853 · arxiv_version: 1212.3853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.3853 · pith_short_12: 3DZWFXTIJLCJ · pith_short_16: 3DZWFXTIJLCJCD5F · pith_short_8: 3DZWFXTI

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/3DZWFXTIJLCJCD5F4LFXX7JO4M \
  | 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: d8f362de684ac4910fa5e2cb7bfd2ee30718323947e8e20cf7eeba2eb54415dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f44d1d3e497f6b84b67bcee4292e4c3e4f15c9fc10c5f49bf466dd964ad54a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-17T00:17:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd81ae434b10137d371af0b67a3a43695c19cb31374ccd1dd112a304c3c80b47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.3853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}