Pith Number

pith:5NW5FBI3

pith:2016:5NW5FBI3VSZKNCOGGEEKHLY6DA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Capacity bounds for distributed storage

Michael Luby

arxiv:1610.03541 v5 · 2016-10-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NW5FBI3VSZKNCOGGEEKHLY6DA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:41.652156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb6dd2851bacb2a689c63108a3af1e181eb7b0413548efaaf03ef364369400f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.03541 · arxiv_version: 1610.03541v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.03541 · pith_short_12: 5NW5FBI3VSZK · pith_short_16: 5NW5FBI3VSZKNCOG · pith_short_8: 5NW5FBI3

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/5NW5FBI3VSZKNCOGGEEKHLY6DA \
  | 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: eb6dd2851bacb2a689c63108a3af1e181eb7b0413548efaaf03ef364369400f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d4cd9538e9dca376e41bbc8ac4ad6b976cccdb52710cec7da1a4a7f9510815e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-11T21:36:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f00685d4bc957ea97a0eeb174b9dac35a2078812b2df5203ae120e0d5cd30a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.03541",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}