Pith Number

pith:VHKSXK77

pith:2015:VHKSXK77SSULH7MSFQMQK2TI2Z

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Optimal Relay Selection with Non-negligible Probing Time

Mingyan Liu, Yang Liu, Yi Ouyang

arxiv:1502.02376 v1 · 2015-02-09 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHKSXK77SSULH7MSFQMQK2TI2Z}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:42.639537Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9d52babff94a8b3fd922c19056a68d67c512b545ef0f16d3e371c252582e822

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.02376 · arxiv_version: 1502.02376v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.02376 · pith_short_12: VHKSXK77SSUL · pith_short_16: VHKSXK77SSULH7MS · pith_short_8: VHKSXK77

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHKSXK77SSULH7MSFQMQK2TI2Z \
  | 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: a9d52babff94a8b3fd922c19056a68d67c512b545ef0f16d3e371c252582e822

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9cbe17f384ea6a8258c8deb4058a1edf57d21f00c4a5ff5e5b04dafc8f404ec3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-09T06:39:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f359206085dd634bfa49b8b46f1fa2e5ff33b22f8ff57960bfdcbdc8d20d5ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.02376",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}