Pith Number

pith:JVEY6MWF

pith:2002:JVEY6MWFPAC5YO74CIZVHBH4CK

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Active Virtual Network Management Prediction: Complexity as a Framework for Prediction, Optimization, and Assurance

Stephen F. Bush

arxiv:cs/0203014 v1 · 2002-03-11 · cs.CC · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVEY6MWFPAC5YO74CIZVHBH4CK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:09.049502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d498f32c57805dc3bfc12335384fc128cf8343d41aae9205d57069a9f93e38e

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0203014 · arxiv_version: cs/0203014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0203014 · pith_short_12: JVEY6MWFPAC5 · pith_short_16: JVEY6MWFPAC5YO74 · pith_short_8: JVEY6MWF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JVEY6MWFPAC5YO74CIZVHBH4CK \
  | 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: 4d498f32c57805dc3bfc12335384fc128cf8343d41aae9205d57069a9f93e38e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2cc5aa588d45f7d1230172963c799161a2e0467707f37679a4aed0a7bee9452",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-11T23:09:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "461718308d62af5deadce1dfb4b0d57a0bc76d09e04735d9f5ad92c27ee50a42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0203014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}