Pith Number

pith:5MTDY7PI

pith:2017:5MTDY7PIZ6ZQGS2TLWGZCLP5U5

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Optimal Service Elasticity in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Debankur Mukherjee, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Sem Borst, Souvik Dhara

arxiv:1703.08373 v1 · 2017-03-24 · math.PR · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5MTDY7PIZ6ZQGS2TLWGZCLP5U5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:53.053662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb263c7de8cfb3034b535d8d912dfda75c61649450a161af1a157f57a11500b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.08373 · arxiv_version: 1703.08373v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.08373 · pith_short_12: 5MTDY7PIZ6ZQ · pith_short_16: 5MTDY7PIZ6ZQGS2T · pith_short_8: 5MTDY7PI

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/5MTDY7PIZ6ZQGS2TLWGZCLP5U5 \
  | 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: eb263c7de8cfb3034b535d8d912dfda75c61649450a161af1a157f57a11500b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd942907cf682c40b83fe523742dd1538e9588fb5de2a3690f22dde2760c9874",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-24T11:46:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fca4a872c66d9e8015ff671a9f25547dca515874eb702a36e91afcbcddf6160"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.08373",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}