Pith Number

pith:R5P3F3EL

pith:2013:R5P3F3ELY4G5FBMUZ2GXZTCK4D

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Spot Transit: Cheaper Internet Transit for Elastic Traffic

Baochun Li, Hong Xu

arxiv:1309.6422 v1 · 2013-09-25 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5P3F3ELY4G5FBMUZ2GXZTCK4D}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:12:21.190735Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f5fb2ec8bc70dd28594ce8d7ccc4ae0d8f64b65ba2499cc5c5793b616a03dbd

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.6422 · arxiv_version: 1309.6422v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.6422 · pith_short_12: R5P3F3ELY4G5 · pith_short_16: R5P3F3ELY4G5FBMU · pith_short_8: R5P3F3EL

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/R5P3F3ELY4G5FBMUZ2GXZTCK4D \
  | 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: 8f5fb2ec8bc70dd28594ce8d7ccc4ae0d8f64b65ba2499cc5c5793b616a03dbd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7da1d3eb3170f64702cdf7c5c9e8d88156d3204a71eb46bce2f5c14c88a6cfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-25T08:28:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1997c9ecb8fa5146ebaa34960898e655b8774a3e7ac5733e677b196e37133e05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.6422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}