Pith Number

pith:B4O6ZVSN

pith:2016:B4O6ZVSNKTIX3BYGRIJXOMRK2D

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A Performance-Based Scheme for Pricing Resources in the Cloud

Kamal Jain, Tung Mai, Vijay V. Vazirani

arxiv:1610.00157 v1 · 2016-10-01 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4O6ZVSNKTIX3BYGRIJXOMRK2D}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:31.759542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f1decd64d54d17d87068a1377322ad0f8a1abe49edb99c3d4aa45d7ddd207e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00157 · arxiv_version: 1610.00157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00157 · pith_short_12: B4O6ZVSNKTIX · pith_short_16: B4O6ZVSNKTIX3BYG · pith_short_8: B4O6ZVSN

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/B4O6ZVSNKTIX3BYGRIJXOMRK2D \
  | 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: 0f1decd64d54d17d87068a1377322ad0f8a1abe49edb99c3d4aa45d7ddd207e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73114a8ecfd0c7007dda9a1fb26e540e018e3cfad931752b4656bbf9e321f367",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-01T16:38:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5920871ec229f84bd83e2cb5b4693618de89c9a3b8291a67965abfb8e2b7dc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}