Pith Number

pith:LV4QB6SI

pith:2002:LV4QB6SIEWMJQ4XOXAJ4WFLDJU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Competitive Paging Algorithms

Amos Fiat, Daniel Sleator, Lyle McGeoch, Mike Luby, Neal E. Young, Richard Karp

arxiv:cs/0205038 v1 · 2002-05-18 · cs.DS · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LV4QB6SIEWMJQ4XOXAJ4WFLDJU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:53.956640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d7900fa4825989872eeb813cb15634d3b0933e08ab99def921c2b8db8052549

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205038 · arxiv_version: cs/0205038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205038 · pith_short_12: LV4QB6SIEWMJ · pith_short_16: LV4QB6SIEWMJQ4XO · pith_short_8: LV4QB6SI

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/LV4QB6SIEWMJQ4XOXAJ4WFLDJU \
  | 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: 5d7900fa4825989872eeb813cb15634d3b0933e08ab99def921c2b8db8052549

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9585a0161d2fe310c509142f87db2fd759b248fead49a7d70c9adaea5fa76053",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-18T13:49:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a40f620b2712334b8cd33f5937a5109a5b1f7891809e1018547bdd061e5ad2d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}