Pith Number

pith:5WHR74LV

pith:2013:5WHR74LVIHM5PNPF2WALM4NU4A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Do Redundant Requests Reduce Latency ?

Kangwook Lee, Kannan Ramchandran, Nihar B. Shah

arxiv:1311.2851 v1 · 2013-11-07 · cs.NI · cs.DC · cs.PF

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WHR74LVIHM5PNPF2WALM4NU4A}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:21.750257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed8f1ff17541d9d7b5e5d580b671b4e0016bae7f2bfe8764b9a1718e41fab6a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.2851 · arxiv_version: 1311.2851v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.2851 · pith_short_12: 5WHR74LVIHM5 · pith_short_16: 5WHR74LVIHM5PNPF · pith_short_8: 5WHR74LV

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/5WHR74LVIHM5PNPF2WALM4NU4A \
  | 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: ed8f1ff17541d9d7b5e5d580b671b4e0016bae7f2bfe8764b9a1718e41fab6a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b726663fa87d82b145b261878aaa93ffefdfcbb55d35aa80f8cb6ad0184d4d22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-07T02:43:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "959dc8ab6d71bc954757cdaad8cfab9ac199258ff34464b5dcc9d61d5d85d17c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.2851",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}