Pith Number

pith:VMFRK2AT

pith:2014:VMFRK2ATIBI5FNDLZU24NE4WPB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Routing and Staffing when Servers are Strategic

Adam Wierman, Amy R. Ward, Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Sherwin Doroudi

arxiv:1402.3606 v4 · 2014-02-14 · cs.GT · cs.SY · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMFRK2ATIBI5FNDLZU24NE4WPB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:28.342699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab0b1568134051d2b46bcd35c693967853a5e983f1b70fe45774565d91137562

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.3606 · arxiv_version: 1402.3606v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.3606 · pith_short_12: VMFRK2ATIBI5 · pith_short_16: VMFRK2ATIBI5FNDL · pith_short_8: VMFRK2AT

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/VMFRK2ATIBI5FNDLZU24NE4WPB \
  | 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: ab0b1568134051d2b46bcd35c693967853a5e983f1b70fe45774565d91137562

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7bd32c7c635af623324868f703efd6853465a5a0f86b914f23560ffc45a787f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-14T21:21:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "050f58693ab67d32d7bd3caaed5685cddfe6dcef0725af9e6deb60051d549d4e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.3606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}