Pith Number

pith:YNE7HSHS

pith:2017:YNE7HSHSF27Z7ZBDI35DKWRBF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Infinite Server Problem

Christian Coester, Elias Koutsoupias, Philip Lazos

arxiv:1702.08474 v1 · 2017-02-27 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNE7HSHSF27Z7ZBDI35DKWRBF4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:49:48.625497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c349f3c8f22ebf9fe42346fa355a212f06f0b4dc9d746477e427cb26b5c3713d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08474 · arxiv_version: 1702.08474v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08474 · pith_short_12: YNE7HSHSF27Z · pith_short_16: YNE7HSHSF27Z7ZBD · pith_short_8: YNE7HSHS

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/YNE7HSHSF27Z7ZBDI35DKWRBF4 \
  | 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: c349f3c8f22ebf9fe42346fa355a212f06f0b4dc9d746477e427cb26b5c3713d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "494a99b472fa55813c939b71b9f6b6029e8e96a37aedd4439610840a0f9ce7d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T19:11:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a25cd27f7718eebe202d98da096c8fa56ab333fc1456f2483fd737d30cac7038"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.08474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}