Pith Number

pith:OVNQQAK5

pith:2007:OVNQQAK5ULS5B3IYCJOXPAU5T5

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The Kolkata Paise Restaurant Problem and Resource Utilization

Anindya-Sundar Chakrabarti, Arnab Chatterjee, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Manipushpak Mitra

arxiv:0711.1639 v3 · 2007-11-11 · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{OVNQQAK5ULS5B3IYCJOXPAU5T5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:25.203435Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

755b08015da2e5d0ed18125d77829d9f7748667c3f9635ce1374daad8492f93a

Aliases

arxiv: 0711.1639 · arxiv_version: 0711.1639v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0711.1639 · pith_short_12: OVNQQAK5ULS5 · pith_short_16: OVNQQAK5ULS5B3IY · pith_short_8: OVNQQAK5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OVNQQAK5ULS5B3IYCJOXPAU5T5 \
  | 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: 755b08015da2e5d0ed18125d77829d9f7748667c3f9635ce1374daad8492f93a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1321489157fe27eccf8b1478be02d810ce94c8e32b4df900d7927695f4a0f9f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-11-11T05:46:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7facbfff951f7b26049dfa004d172718e8025b3e312be357f5ea1638b40dd2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0711.1639",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}