Pith Number

pith:VXRGID72

pith:2012:VXRGID72WVHFYVUJFLSO73QZHH

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Optimal Degree of Optical Circuit Switching in IP-over-WDM Networks

Christian Raack, Daniel Kharitonov, Roland Wessaly, Ulrich Menne

arxiv:1208.0581 v1 · 2012-08-02 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXRGID72WVHFYVUJFLSO73QZHH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:21.412900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade2640ffab54e5c56892ae4efee1939caa1a2dee551d73e83d0d2fddc592df8

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0581 · arxiv_version: 1208.0581v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0581 · pith_short_12: VXRGID72WVHF · pith_short_16: VXRGID72WVHFYVUJ · pith_short_8: VXRGID72

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VXRGID72WVHFYVUJFLSO73QZHH \
  | 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: ade2640ffab54e5c56892ae4efee1939caa1a2dee551d73e83d0d2fddc592df8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d8ad08042c654a45726f15bfa0ba1d79ba5bdab4a05cdfea631a80ffc07eac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-02T19:35:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f3d106bbd84e692c63735be1ebe903eda72ce5365029fd16918306d6e2191ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0581",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}