Pith Number

pith:N52KZ47A

pith:2009:N52KZ47ANWY7ADESRYWEN74WSB

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On a Processor Sharing Queue That Models Balking

Charles Knessl, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Qiang Zhen

arxiv:0905.3700 v1 · 2009-05-22 · math.PR · math.CA

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\pithnumber{N52KZ47ANWY7ADESRYWEN74WSB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:34.448339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f74acf3e06db1f00c928e2c46ff96906d4dbeb53531be92abbfa6b2a61ff7fa

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.3700 · arxiv_version: 0905.3700v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.3700 · pith_short_12: N52KZ47ANWY7 · pith_short_16: N52KZ47ANWY7ADES · pith_short_8: N52KZ47A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N52KZ47ANWY7ADESRYWEN74WSB \
  | 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: 6f74acf3e06db1f00c928e2c46ff96906d4dbeb53531be92abbfa6b2a61ff7fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "111921ec1cde8f07e13d2c008aad48e7cccd5ab7bec1859ad57cd0628c356228",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-22T15:13:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a553fd9041855bb2e47ce998db2c622cd742011991495913fc0e3aec0fd960e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.3700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}