Pith Number

pith:RKIWXXFU

pith:2010:RKIWXXFUJUHLXTIS6EUVLFLNZX

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The Necessity of Relay Selection

Erdem Koyuncu, Hamid Jafarkhani

arxiv:1011.5699 v1 · 2010-11-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKIWXXFUJUHLXTIS6EUVLFLNZX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:38.640877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a916bdcb44d0ebbcd12f12955956dcdf1c342293f182ba549f973d8968eb656

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.5699 · arxiv_version: 1011.5699v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.5699 · pith_short_12: RKIWXXFUJUHL · pith_short_16: RKIWXXFUJUHLXTIS · pith_short_8: RKIWXXFU

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/RKIWXXFUJUHLXTIS6EUVLFLNZX \
  | 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: 8a916bdcb44d0ebbcd12f12955956dcdf1c342293f182ba549f973d8968eb656

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b64f74c1c1470d33b8cad23aba7b28032e7fb2598936faa802c400c002ddec40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-26T03:16:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d06141a95976c68b54cb078ad27c4694bcef75a6cb4649c4239a041da38f6e3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.5699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}