Pith Number

pith:YZRWWXER

pith:2013:YZRWWXERMBW3OEK5C5Q4FRSGFR

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Perfect sampling for infinite server and loss systems

Jing Dong, Jose Blanchet

arxiv:1312.4088 v1 · 2013-12-14 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZRWWXERMBW3OEK5C5Q4FRSGFR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:04:35.803899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6636b5c91606db7115d1761c2c6462c40940cc42f6e2b94af85d49ccfe3c0f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.4088 · arxiv_version: 1312.4088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.4088 · pith_short_12: YZRWWXERMBW3 · pith_short_16: YZRWWXERMBW3OEK5 · pith_short_8: YZRWWXER

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/YZRWWXERMBW3OEK5C5Q4FRSGFR \
  | 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: c6636b5c91606db7115d1761c2c6462c40940cc42f6e2b94af85d49ccfe3c0f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c26e20283524323402f15d544e92e04663adfc32c7e62efa8a4e9df3fe71ddd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-14T21:12:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b75762565a806798d80f4d74af89bfa6a6efd286d01b1a4af89b1dd1733f0d0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.4088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}