Pith Number

pith:EF37UBX7

pith:2016:EF37UBX7MCFSB5FGDKNKL4UB6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Age of Information: Real-Time Status Updating by Multiple Sources

Roy D. Yates, Sanjit K. Kaul

arxiv:1608.08622 v2 · 2016-08-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EF37UBX7MCFSB5FGDKNKL4UB6G}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:16.566512Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2177fa06ff608b20f4a61a9aa5f281f19a5d5e5c23b6fc3e02c4cbccb2e01dc9

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08622 · arxiv_version: 1608.08622v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08622 · pith_short_12: EF37UBX7MCFS · pith_short_16: EF37UBX7MCFSB5FG · pith_short_8: EF37UBX7

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/EF37UBX7MCFSB5FGDKNKL4UB6G \
  | 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: 2177fa06ff608b20f4a61a9aa5f281f19a5d5e5c23b6fc3e02c4cbccb2e01dc9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "457caba33b2bf41d883d19e8c659e1eb5cf34c8b49f5aedf6b43d516420986cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-30T19:59:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f5f1bf951cac95564cfa152745ceb1a6cc792f7a47ce61dc094cee2b5ed4166"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}