Pith Number

pith:BE2TORRD

pith:2017:BE2TORRDHBI3JFWQ2EDVMZULHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decentralized Coded Caching Without File Splitting

Ian Blake, Lutz Lampe, Seyed Ali Saberali

arxiv:1708.07493 v2 · 2017-08-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BE2TORRDHBI3JFWQ2EDVMZULHI}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:48.702008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09353746233851b496d0d10756668b3a0019793ddbb366f0fa35241362b8efe4

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07493 · arxiv_version: 1708.07493v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07493 · pith_short_12: BE2TORRDHBI3 · pith_short_16: BE2TORRDHBI3JFWQ · pith_short_8: BE2TORRD

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/BE2TORRDHBI3JFWQ2EDVMZULHI \
  | 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: 09353746233851b496d0d10756668b3a0019793ddbb366f0fa35241362b8efe4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee2f43ae63d1b9f2df7fbbd9245291c8479be4a48dbd62146228d1b3487d8de5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T17:01:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c24130424a0ce607b8214b6bcdccb921b2daa72d106fec6584cd3efe0f47aaeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}