Pith Number

pith:PTCJQWVA

pith:2016:PTCJQWVAKMR42ZKANMLGHHLZU6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Optimal Latency of Communications

Francois Gagnon, Minh Au

arxiv:1610.00017 v2 · 2016-09-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PTCJQWVAKMR42ZKANMLGHHLZU6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:24.204630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7cc4985aa05323cd65406b16639d79a7877f9d10cb8af3222ddebb72bbbffaea

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00017 · arxiv_version: 1610.00017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00017 · pith_short_12: PTCJQWVAKMR4 · pith_short_16: PTCJQWVAKMR42ZKA · pith_short_8: PTCJQWVA

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/PTCJQWVAKMR42ZKANMLGHHLZU6 \
  | 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: 7cc4985aa05323cd65406b16639d79a7877f9d10cb8af3222ddebb72bbbffaea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b96f771e34c8a19b6a9d68bfe63bf592689372ed07741dfa3cea458a36ebac8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-30T20:01:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bea217a961857d80e15feda086b917e3940cc5ae5f82c8974e712dc768f7a79f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}