Pith Number

pith:43QFX3NP

pith:2025:43QFX3NPFKKD6P37CYT5B3RR2T

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Leveraging Network Methods for Hub-like Microservice Detection

Alexander Bakhtin, Davide Taibi, Matteo Esposito, Valentina Lenarduzzi

arxiv:2506.07683 v2 · 2025-06-09 · cs.SE · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43QFX3NPFKKD6P37CYT5B3RR2T}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:20:13.894327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6e05bedaf2a943f3f7f1627d0ee31d4ce6df874f28eb0397742de29d9cd8478

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.07683 · arxiv_version: 2506.07683v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.07683 · pith_short_12: 43QFX3NPFKKD · pith_short_16: 43QFX3NPFKKD6P37 · pith_short_8: 43QFX3NP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/43QFX3NPFKKD6P37CYT5B3RR2T \
  | 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: e6e05bedaf2a943f3f7f1627d0ee31d4ce6df874f28eb0397742de29d9cd8478

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9be36e3edcc0f7b295fedf4258c31f4c5fb28efc5a964a1b2e479fdb07c6f950",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T12:13:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72ee874f6c272e4dcc93a05b9a68d6b9e39a2df4d65740a3cdf5d5fe4e94496d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.07683",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}