Pith Number

pith:5S4JSYPI

pith:2018:5S4JSYPI3SLIMA72JFAXHUJ3RL

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Age of Information in a Network of Preemptive Servers

Roy D. Yates

arxiv:1803.07993 v1 · 2018-03-21 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5S4JSYPI3SLIMA72JFAXHUJ3RL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:20:28.318452Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ecb89961e8dc968603fa494173d13b8afa6db23e1376afc43487bb05d1cbbc00

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.07993 · arxiv_version: 1803.07993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.07993 · pith_short_12: 5S4JSYPI3SLI · pith_short_16: 5S4JSYPI3SLIMA72 · pith_short_8: 5S4JSYPI

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/5S4JSYPI3SLIMA72JFAXHUJ3RL \
  | 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: ecb89961e8dc968603fa494173d13b8afa6db23e1376afc43487bb05d1cbbc00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b890cdec5281670e44a00781ae66e59ef375c202fc6c4db5422debe21944ab4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-21T16:25:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7764b312ce88347cab0d9567639fda2015f0c52426df5ea0bb65d2fba0259a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.07993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}