Pith Number

pith:VOIIP4AD

pith:2017:VOIIP4ADARL22U2LHIV2GKINDF

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Delay, memory, and messaging tradeoffs in distributed service systems

David Gamarnik, John N. Tsitsiklis, Martin Zubeldia

arxiv:1709.04102 v1 · 2017-09-13 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VOIIP4ADARL22U2LHIV2GKINDF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:15.457441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab9087f0030457ad534b3a2ba3290d1967eb513db5e079a102fad8253bfc2a4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04102 · arxiv_version: 1709.04102v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04102 · pith_short_12: VOIIP4ADARL2 · pith_short_16: VOIIP4ADARL22U2L · pith_short_8: VOIIP4AD

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/VOIIP4ADARL22U2LHIV2GKINDF \
  | 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: ab9087f0030457ad534b3a2ba3290d1967eb513db5e079a102fad8253bfc2a4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e61208a232f43d515648732fa69dd510871d4d749106fd777e73cc768dc6b5eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-13T01:33:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2b77fa391b1cd6e560f3e14bcb01adc0590d2fed4dbf19efd002594cf5687e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}