Pith Number

pith:SNMZZ5EK

pith:2014:SNMZZ5EKSJ6NOZDX6LKTR2FYYT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Closed-Form Waiting Time Approximations for Polling Systems

Erik Winands, Ivo Adan, Marko Boon, Sandra van Wijk

arxiv:1408.0134 v1 · 2014-08-01 · math.PR · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNMZZ5EKSJ6NOZDX6LKTR2FYYT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:03.788272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93599cf48a927cd76477f2d538e8b8c4e685fa3157187a3fc907b2cb66a571a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0134 · arxiv_version: 1408.0134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0134 · pith_short_12: SNMZZ5EKSJ6N · pith_short_16: SNMZZ5EKSJ6NOZDX · pith_short_8: SNMZZ5EK

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/SNMZZ5EKSJ6NOZDX6LKTR2FYYT \
  | 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: 93599cf48a927cd76477f2d538e8b8c4e685fa3157187a3fc907b2cb66a571a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba344975393178e19260394f08456f603dece02050e0f3578e1bc045c119a4c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-01T11:24:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aac5c9d3bc47edca8be98732109a7c34b64a0eef83bb73534171817acb801ada"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}