Pith Number

pith:D254XGY4

pith:2017:D254XGY4W34MCWKP25QP64MQIS

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The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information

Bin Li, Bo Ji, Yu Sang

arxiv:1704.04848 v2 · 2017-04-17 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D254XGY4W34MCWKP25QP64MQIS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:47.553882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ebbcb9b1cb6f8c1594fd760ff719044bd6d87c8d387e91feb9a966dc8df9911

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04848 · arxiv_version: 1704.04848v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04848 · pith_short_12: D254XGY4W34M · pith_short_16: D254XGY4W34MCWKP · pith_short_8: D254XGY4

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/D254XGY4W34MCWKP25QP64MQIS \
  | 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: 1ebbcb9b1cb6f8c1594fd760ff719044bd6d87c8d387e91feb9a966dc8df9911

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06ad94f510fd37f6014040b578475b2f3170109bc59093129e74bd5dacfcdce7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-17T01:57:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa750ad1d511dee04a1acfe7eeb71667f1e481094ffba0a0472bee9de2a43838"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04848",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}