Pith Number

pith:IPPYUXZB

pith:2025:IPPYUXZBEZQQMGTBP4KSKQOESS

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Who is in Charge here? Understanding How Runtime Configuration Affects Software along with Variables&Constants

Chaopeng Luo, Haochen He, Shanshan Li, Shulin Zhou, Si Zheng, Teng Wang, Yuanliang Zhang, Zhouyang Jia

arxiv:2503.23774 v1 · 2025-03-31 · cs.SE · cs.DC · cs.OS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IPPYUXZBEZQQMGTBP4KSKQOESS}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T10:41:59.770464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43df8a5f212661061a617f152541c4949ce199974a5995ae7601d0f466da8eda

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.23774 · arxiv_version: 2503.23774v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.23774 · pith_short_12: IPPYUXZBEZQQ · pith_short_16: IPPYUXZBEZQQMGTB · pith_short_8: IPPYUXZB

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/IPPYUXZBEZQQMGTBP4KSKQOESS \
  | 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: 43df8a5f212661061a617f152541c4949ce199974a5995ae7601d0f466da8eda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a56efb8457ffb248cc386dbd0be2a762d9a53a6880ae15bb5e15c728dfd2f9d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.OS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-31T06:48:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d4a3aa8569ce6466959bb048756f11611bd957ad3ef42f7b5411f95bf2239dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.23774",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}