Pith Number

pith:C2VXAKDX

pith:2019:C2VXAKDXVCGL2RQKCRS4JQXPHG

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Virtually the Same: Comparing Physical and Virtual Testbeds

Aaron Brown, Cynthia Phillips, Jonathan Crussell, Thomas M Kroeger

arxiv:1902.01937 v1 · 2019-01-21 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2VXAKDXVCGL2RQKCRS4JQXPHG}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:38.290179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16ab702877a88cbd460a1465c4c2ef3984cb2d6e8a3e10d752d0a15e3452cd77

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.01937 · arxiv_version: 1902.01937v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.01937 · pith_short_12: C2VXAKDXVCGL · pith_short_16: C2VXAKDXVCGL2RQK · pith_short_8: C2VXAKDX

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/C2VXAKDXVCGL2RQKCRS4JQXPHG \
  | 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: 16ab702877a88cbd460a1465c4c2ef3984cb2d6e8a3e10d752d0a15e3452cd77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8b7fb409ceaa38f4e33bc8f0706394457f7df5dc3fd4de823000ff27f07dba4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-21T18:41:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "794ba33d14b46cf4e1753fe5655b02cb5f3d314e7dde5b74b63cb65dc262b5fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.01937",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}