Pith Number

pith:53VMX5LV

pith:2017:53VMX5LVN7ZXL2LN5XLSRVSRJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Optimality of Separation between Caching and Delivery in General Cache Networks

A. Salman Avestimehr, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Navid Naderializadeh

arxiv:1701.05881 v3 · 2017-01-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{53VMX5LVN7ZXL2LN5XLSRVSRJC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:45.551654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eeeacbf5756ff375e96dedd728d65148b3206db142d085e9815fd0099ecc06e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.05881 · arxiv_version: 1701.05881v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.05881 · pith_short_12: 53VMX5LVN7ZX · pith_short_16: 53VMX5LVN7ZXL2LN · pith_short_8: 53VMX5LV

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/53VMX5LVN7ZXL2LN5XLSRVSRJC \
  | 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: eeeacbf5756ff375e96dedd728d65148b3206db142d085e9815fd0099ecc06e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b409daf87183d1d2bc15e14136729c98abfe7155e2d47a16500c323f0c17b26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-20T18:27:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77ffacdd6f445fc7ee20062dbe841c76e843de6fc70160956ce34c25b8a74da4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.05881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}