Pith Number

pith:6QGDCYCW

pith:2016:6QGDCYCWG46J5VGC4NZASUGDRN

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Universality of Power-of-$d$ Load Balancing in Many-Server Systems

Debankur Mukherjee, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Philip A. Whiting, Sem C. Borst

arxiv:1612.00723 v2 · 2016-12-02 · math.PR

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\pithnumber{6QGDCYCWG46J5VGC4NZASUGDRN}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:55:39.058788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f40c316056373c9ed4c2e3720950c38b693c6efa093a4381a7a0389f9e3e2bdd

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00723 · arxiv_version: 1612.00723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00723 · pith_short_12: 6QGDCYCWG46J · pith_short_16: 6QGDCYCWG46J5VGC · pith_short_8: 6QGDCYCW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QGDCYCWG46J5VGC4NZASUGDRN \
  | 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: f40c316056373c9ed4c2e3720950c38b693c6efa093a4381a7a0389f9e3e2bdd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5934dbecee11974570f7a4d2b4c7784b87ebb13b1b60c3a9e51edf11cb8081cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-02T16:11:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bbf494a4e83e2e5ffe67132ce9be0da1f40931407f1dfdd40fddd976514afdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}