Pith Number

pith:HW55YFR4

pith:2014:HW55YFR4Z46H6DCHKXIP3GQQNS

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Specifying and Placing Chains of Virtual Network Functions

Holger Karl, Matthias Keller, Sevil Mehraghdam

arxiv:1406.1058 v1 · 2014-06-04 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HW55YFR4Z46H6DCHKXIP3GQQNS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:21.074592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3dbbdc163ccf3c7f0c4755d0fd9a106cb0cd42fb9bfe6baea008dab77183873b

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.1058 · arxiv_version: 1406.1058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.1058 · pith_short_12: HW55YFR4Z46H · pith_short_16: HW55YFR4Z46H6DCH · pith_short_8: HW55YFR4

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/HW55YFR4Z46H6DCHKXIP3GQQNS \
  | 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: 3dbbdc163ccf3c7f0c4755d0fd9a106cb0cd42fb9bfe6baea008dab77183873b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1719f89c6dd8d8a51ebf1870ba850d3177b90abe422c0f45d81346e5c62e9c57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-04T14:38:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a69f275f358462d9e2bcd4789c23ea0b3489a86d888ed95cd04c0e7ff5e06805"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.1058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}