Pith Number

pith:YRX3TRFH

pith:2015:YRX3TRFHLERUQZEBLYPS2G3F6T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Critically loaded k-limited polling systems

Erik Winands, Marko Boon

arxiv:1505.04996 v2 · 2015-05-19 · math.PR · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YRX3TRFHLERUQZEBLYPS2G3F6T}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:38.735259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c46fb9c4a759234864815e1f2d1b65f4caed5cacbd2133bb7bb0562e9b687b18

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.04996 · arxiv_version: 1505.04996v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.04996 · pith_short_12: YRX3TRFHLERU · pith_short_16: YRX3TRFHLERUQZEB · pith_short_8: YRX3TRFH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YRX3TRFHLERUQZEBLYPS2G3F6T \
  | 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: c46fb9c4a759234864815e1f2d1b65f4caed5cacbd2133bb7bb0562e9b687b18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c63793902d8192ad478c1c4d34a5b14062c0a69c303bf7629cf38ebbe0c3a202",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-19T13:52:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b6c32a8c9999c7141a97aae548323d57a1c9b21d7f945004e43ad49987503bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.04996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}