Pith Number

pith:C2ZMFNEI

pith:2018:C2ZMFNEI26GBG6IFNLVCXSKYED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimized Portfolio Contracts for Bidding the Cloud

Arnob Ghosh, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yang Zhang

arxiv:1811.12901 v1 · 2018-11-30 · cs.DC · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2ZMFNEI26GBG6IFNLVCXSKYED}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:28.221152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16b2c2b488d78c1379056aea2bc95820eaa51f6d413d3d7e5b13e05b2cefe87a

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12901 · arxiv_version: 1811.12901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12901 · pith_short_12: C2ZMFNEI26GB · pith_short_16: C2ZMFNEI26GBG6IF · pith_short_8: C2ZMFNEI

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/C2ZMFNEI26GBG6IFNLVCXSKYED \
  | 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: 16b2c2b488d78c1379056aea2bc95820eaa51f6d413d3d7e5b13e05b2cefe87a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0144ac51216b19862913bba1a6b0dfb51d8a04a1cf9382626fbb6fdeb67ca40c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-30T17:25:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f031903a4979f7bbcfe809b67096bbb6e4ed84c82f7cde9e3af7fcecffc95197"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}