Pith Number

pith:3EM3R6GI

pith:2016:3EM3R6GIPS5W23RYC3TQBY45NY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A signaling protocol for service function localization

Dario Valocchi, Gianluca Reali, Mauro Femminella

arxiv:1604.08357 v1 · 2016-04-28 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3EM3R6GIPS5W23RYC3TQBY45NY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:58.452130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d919b8f8c87cbb6d6e3816e700e39d6e1d7bb752732004e9d55a9875608fcb2a

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.08357 · arxiv_version: 1604.08357v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.08357 · pith_short_12: 3EM3R6GIPS5W · pith_short_16: 3EM3R6GIPS5W23RY · pith_short_8: 3EM3R6GI

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/3EM3R6GIPS5W23RYC3TQBY45NY \
  | 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: d919b8f8c87cbb6d6e3816e700e39d6e1d7bb752732004e9d55a9875608fcb2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e11fd4122d6df2358e11c65ce3ba1313ec7b53e60fd56e04c017406d38d9376",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-28T09:35:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "409d4d9d1fb48914cbe2f4debc71ba6de97737a1016bb034b7e213a9ad319235"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.08357",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}