Pith Number

pith:VBZLZWGB

pith:2017:VBZLZWGB4J34KLP7XN5HDZAQVU

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Running the Network Harder: Connection Provisioning under Resource Crunch

Biswanath Mukherjee, Charles U. Martel, Massimo Tornatore, Rafael B. R. Lourenco

arxiv:1710.00115 v3 · 2017-09-29 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBZLZWGB4J34KLP7XN5HDZAQVU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:33.294593Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a872bcd8c1e277c52dffbb7a71e410ad37a0014c17bc61e3e5e71c5d56ec0d78

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.00115 · arxiv_version: 1710.00115v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.00115 · pith_short_12: VBZLZWGB4J34 · pith_short_16: VBZLZWGB4J34KLP7 · pith_short_8: VBZLZWGB

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/VBZLZWGB4J34KLP7XN5HDZAQVU \
  | 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: a872bcd8c1e277c52dffbb7a71e410ad37a0014c17bc61e3e5e71c5d56ec0d78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1112205808a62b4bd05978e68fbb323e8dfe025433c246071abe5cfe39aeb646",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-29T23:01:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "983e23568f303d1f52b390c790a4984d32f1844784409dc9b5c1b3bc7fa18c32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.00115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}