Pith Number

pith:C3J6KH5Y

pith:2026:C3J6KH5YHXOETS2TQQ7SCZVFPH

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Caching for Dollars, Not Hits: An Exact Offline Reference for Cloud-Egress Caching and the Crossover That Decides When It Pays

Madhulatha Mandarapu, Sandeep Kunkunuru

arxiv:2606.20539 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.DB · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C3J6KH5YHXOETS2TQQ7SCZVFPH}

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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	2026-06-19T16:13:14.803211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16d3e51fb83ddc49cb53843f2166a579e4f44d5517bd4b08952f7a6221f87991

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20539 · arxiv_version: 2606.20539v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20539 · pith_short_12: C3J6KH5YHXOE · pith_short_16: C3J6KH5YHXOETS2T · pith_short_8: C3J6KH5Y

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/C3J6KH5YHXOETS2TQQ7SCZVFPH \
  | 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: 16d3e51fb83ddc49cb53843f2166a579e4f44d5517bd4b08952f7a6221f87991

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10fea12a3e8bb7aa60f469d0e4c739ced8ae37150530034e2066703962977a15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T17:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e11d81f1a11f6d7fd0cdb3a805d71d80a99f73d380877c17ffa6283b107f4215"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}