Pith Number

pith:FBSJ2Y3F

pith:2017:FBSJ2Y3FRZMG72GSX4QS45KZJV

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On First Come, First Served Queues with Two Classes of Impatient Customers

Brett Hathaway, Ivo Adan, Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni

arxiv:1710.03798 v2 · 2017-10-10 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FBSJ2Y3FRZMG72GSX4QS45KZJV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:53.208066Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

28649d63658e586fe8d2bf212e75594d65e6f40d00f113c192d8655b1ff7e860

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03798 · arxiv_version: 1710.03798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03798 · pith_short_12: FBSJ2Y3FRZMG · pith_short_16: FBSJ2Y3FRZMG72GS · pith_short_8: FBSJ2Y3F

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/FBSJ2Y3FRZMG72GSX4QS45KZJV \
  | 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: 28649d63658e586fe8d2bf212e75594d65e6f40d00f113c192d8655b1ff7e860

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a71e9a2bde018e4d0c4d915c265726503529745b6b4c7ac32015f0e4d18a1b2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-10T19:35:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "deda66c6c7bb5ae2c9c1914f68e2d2d2987a52a7a8790719a0ea728cfb14c4f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}