Pith Number

pith:NFYI5VFN

pith:2012:NFYI5VFNFQFVFW5SA2VFQSEXZC

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On optimality gaps in the Halfin--Whitt regime

Baris Ata, Itai Gurvich

arxiv:1203.1723 v1 · 2012-03-08 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFYI5VFNFQFVFW5SA2VFQSEXZC}

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:37.173889Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69708ed4ad2c0b52dbb206aa584897c8a9afa229bff9a1eeb7716a894133fd77

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1723 · arxiv_version: 1203.1723v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1723 · pith_short_12: NFYI5VFNFQFV · pith_short_16: NFYI5VFNFQFVFW5S · pith_short_8: NFYI5VFN

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/NFYI5VFNFQFVFW5SA2VFQSEXZC \
  | 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: 69708ed4ad2c0b52dbb206aa584897c8a9afa229bff9a1eeb7716a894133fd77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a1441791a140d7301097f6baba0448fd00894163ed1287c6cf05d051b5091d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-08T09:56:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51a289db23f9e2d892a49417f5166840a9f53624da529ed7266ccb5d2940ed43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}