Pith Number

pith:L7PTXLIY

pith:2002:L7PTXLIY6DSVINBRH2RJFDI4WH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The K-Server Dual and Loose Competitiveness for Paging

Neal E. Young

arxiv:cs/0205044 v1 · 2002-05-18 · cs.DS · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7PTXLIY6DSVINBRH2RJFDI4WH}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:53.921360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fdf3bad18f0e55434313ea2928d1cb1f80be6addea11c6c9f79648e31c3f4bc

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205044 · arxiv_version: cs/0205044v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205044 · pith_short_12: L7PTXLIY6DSV · pith_short_16: L7PTXLIY6DSVINBR · pith_short_8: L7PTXLIY

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/L7PTXLIY6DSVINBRH2RJFDI4WH \
  | 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: 5fdf3bad18f0e55434313ea2928d1cb1f80be6addea11c6c9f79648e31c3f4bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2125aacaf693ef4c9a239ab52f0fef1ae4958ab3dcf3cf4730e771a007acd5d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-18T18:16:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70edc5422f6e1d6b7a511e704e2cc16bbf33443086757dd7c41c0b1dd0b77ae2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}