Pith Number

pith:5WRNL5OX

pith:2011:5WRNL5OXXQFD46K5JDYC425V3U

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On the Economics of Cloud Markets

Pan Hui, Ranjan Pal

arxiv:1103.0045 v1 · 2011-02-28 · cs.NI · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WRNL5OXXQFD46K5JDYC425V3U}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:56:57.988604Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eda2d5f5d7bc0a3e795d48f02e6bb5dd1b5ba9993cd8f8b60a56cc0780058d11

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.0045 · arxiv_version: 1103.0045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.0045 · pith_short_12: 5WRNL5OXXQFD · pith_short_16: 5WRNL5OXXQFD46K5 · pith_short_8: 5WRNL5OX

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/5WRNL5OXXQFD46K5JDYC425V3U \
  | 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: eda2d5f5d7bc0a3e795d48f02e6bb5dd1b5ba9993cd8f8b60a56cc0780058d11

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c457a2c677c43d2335c721836db5817e2fabce6735282f7cae66cdb442c3d3f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-28T22:43:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10051831d56ba6545b1b8ba9e8b87b12111afc1400154d18127722ea2f9c3b2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.0045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}