Pith Number

pith:QTJB5CWY

pith:2008:QTJB5CWYEAJZQOIAHRPERUZJDV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expected Message Delivery Time for Small-world Networks in the Continuum Limit

Harold Vincent Poor, Hazer Inaltekin, Mung Chiang

arxiv:0804.4255 v1 · 2008-04-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTJB5CWYEAJZQOIAHRPERUZJDV}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:58:25.640046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84d21e8ad820139839003c5e48d3291d68b888b6998bb05dcf7e38e46468356c

Aliases

arxiv: 0804.4255 · arxiv_version: 0804.4255v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0804.4255 · pith_short_12: QTJB5CWYEAJZ · pith_short_16: QTJB5CWYEAJZQOIA · pith_short_8: QTJB5CWY

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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/QTJB5CWYEAJZQOIAHRPERUZJDV \
  | 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: 84d21e8ad820139839003c5e48d3291d68b888b6998bb05dcf7e38e46468356c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fd325c8d02b1b7ab68b042c458ea2ab9ec3755ef80e0424b4114354009f0d21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2008-04-26T21:27:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9458af62701db173e7d53d7a5b648048077d577d99124f390b3dd73cab1170b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0804.4255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}