Pith Number

pith:2W4FO2LC

pith:2008:2W4FO2LCZ7GU23LPSEZKRIBMD5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Call Admission Control Algorithm for pre-stored VBR video streams

Andrew Mehler, Christos Tryfonas, Dimitris Papamichail, Steven Skiena

arxiv:0802.4244 v1 · 2008-02-28 · cs.NI · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2W4FO2LCZ7GU23LPSEZKRIBMD5}

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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	2026-07-04T15:09:53.789570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5b8576962cfcd4d6d6f9132a8a02c1f44c50bacc0e22bd20bf45062cefaad99

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.4244 · arxiv_version: 0802.4244v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.4244 · pith_short_12: 2W4FO2LCZ7GU · pith_short_16: 2W4FO2LCZ7GU23LP · pith_short_8: 2W4FO2LC

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/2W4FO2LCZ7GU23LPSEZKRIBMD5 \
  | 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: d5b8576962cfcd4d6d6f9132a8a02c1f44c50bacc0e22bd20bf45062cefaad99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7121c96f1e127ea415dcd8224c60d2aaa77a81447f0d7293df0932e47fc2f28e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-28T17:45:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f69ff3fab4974adea1753253ea4e19688f80f323d88dd5f6b3c02e4b216a491f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.4244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}