Pith Number

pith:F5NVHPFL

pith:2019:F5NVHPFLKVXDNNZBVPGUYFX5JS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Hotelling to Load Balancing: Approximation and the Principle of Minimum Differentiation

Alexander Skopalik, Louise Molitor, Matthias Feldotto, Pascal Lenzner

arxiv:1903.04265 v1 · 2019-03-11 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F5NVHPFLKVXDNNZBVPGUYFX5JS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:36.003658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f5b53bcab556e36b721abcd4c16fd4c9d831ae25b61695ec541b8edce4632a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.04265 · arxiv_version: 1903.04265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.04265 · pith_short_12: F5NVHPFLKVXD · pith_short_16: F5NVHPFLKVXDNNZB · pith_short_8: F5NVHPFL

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/F5NVHPFLKVXDNNZBVPGUYFX5JS \
  | 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: 2f5b53bcab556e36b721abcd4c16fd4c9d831ae25b61695ec541b8edce4632a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "862440e5257cc205c6e618d7dac8cfb0bd9aa5dd8ee93f9765cd2dffe41a0277",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-11T12:58:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ef06bfa81cf62003e5310012e56292d82bc2a571ab3f412b3a8351a141c9e85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.04265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}