Pith Number

pith:4LY37B7X

pith:2012:4LY37B7XNXWWKHOMUFWF74GZUJ

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The Cost of Troubleshooting Cost Clusters with Inside Information

Finn Verner Jensen, Thorsten J. Ottosen

arxiv:1203.3502 v1 · 2012-03-15 · cs.AI · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4LY37B7XNXWWKHOMUFWF74GZUJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:00.171897Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2f1bf87f76ded651dcca16c5ff0d9a2417fc1f43aab7f22d94d88e14a5326fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.3502 · arxiv_version: 1203.3502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.3502 · pith_short_12: 4LY37B7XNXWW · pith_short_16: 4LY37B7XNXWWKHOM · pith_short_8: 4LY37B7X

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/4LY37B7XNXWWKHOMUFWF74GZUJ \
  | 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: e2f1bf87f76ded651dcca16c5ff0d9a2417fc1f43aab7f22d94d88e14a5326fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fffd01ba5c2a4e2bcdf118c715e0702ed4a2d4019143476786d54fc58cd2eec8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-15T11:17:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4260fba2ad72ac81978184ac0c62f7edccc27f7626036abd706f3b53746aa82c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.3502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}