Pith Number

pith:FKL5CCGE

pith:2022:FKL5CCGEXY5J47MOK5YEQ43K3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic 3-Server on a Circle and the Limitation of Canonical Potentials

Hanwen Zhang, Zhiyi Huang

arxiv:2205.08103 v1 · 2022-05-17 · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FKL5CCGEXY5J47MOK5YEQ43K3C}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Cited by

1 paper in Pith

$k$-server-bench: Automating Potential Discovery for the $k$-Server Conjecture

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:23:59.330202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a97d108c4be3a9e7d8e577048736ad8992626db77f7b2df1907cb2cf7a71e21

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.08103 · arxiv_version: 2205.08103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.08103 · pith_short_12: FKL5CCGEXY5J · pith_short_16: FKL5CCGEXY5J47MO · pith_short_8: FKL5CCGE

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/FKL5CCGEXY5J47MOK5YEQ43K3C \
  | 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: 2a97d108c4be3a9e7d8e577048736ad8992626db77f7b2df1907cb2cf7a71e21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf6b486b72ff1e5355fda9cd54c6ca6a47994efe24352047e1c5e9d0072228d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-17T05:49:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89dfed6a7c418e853a671c1a7617ba77ff6b31c7ea884f5d23704fa583843516"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.08103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}