Pith Number

pith:ZNFYEVU3

pith:2014:ZNFYEVU3ZHJDDK47O2WSG6EDCW

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Merlin: A Language for Provisioning Network Resources

Emin G\"un Sirer, Fernando Pedone, Nate Foster, Parisa Jalili Marandi, Robert Kleinberg, Robert Soul\'e, Shrutarshi Basu

arxiv:1407.1199 v1 · 2014-07-04 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNFYEVU3ZHJDDK47O2WSG6EDCW}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:48:18.435814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb4b82569bc9d231ab9f76ad23788315a214e18941b1fbbc67d61d8ebca78fde

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.1199 · arxiv_version: 1407.1199v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.1199 · pith_short_12: ZNFYEVU3ZHJD · pith_short_16: ZNFYEVU3ZHJDDK47 · pith_short_8: ZNFYEVU3

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/ZNFYEVU3ZHJDDK47O2WSG6EDCW \
  | 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: cb4b82569bc9d231ab9f76ad23788315a214e18941b1fbbc67d61d8ebca78fde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c78c3f5a047bc9e8894f277108b05276bf875d48d09f80b8382e6e9c112e1ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-04T11:48:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c19d822619ecbb4cad0940edb4000885b54c1a44b3437934ff70d3dfabb1110"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.1199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}