Pith Number

pith:PKNYL4KS

pith:2017:PKNYL4KSZVO2ETE7MGSCWYISVB

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Efficient image deployment in cloud environments

\'Alvaro L\'opez Garc\'ia, Enol Fern\'andez del Castillo

arxiv:1711.08060 v1 · 2017-11-21 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PKNYL4KSZVO2ETE7MGSCWYISVB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:50.817047Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a9b85f152cd5da24c9f61a42b6112a86fa810bbb3ae8d42dc020fb0d70df113

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.08060 · arxiv_version: 1711.08060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.08060 · pith_short_12: PKNYL4KSZVO2 · pith_short_16: PKNYL4KSZVO2ETE7 · pith_short_8: PKNYL4KS

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/PKNYL4KSZVO2ETE7MGSCWYISVB \
  | 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: 7a9b85f152cd5da24c9f61a42b6112a86fa810bbb3ae8d42dc020fb0d70df113

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd3decca9a6a46a93485f245aae5d2f6d6f46066121185074c112b89a76be015",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-21T21:51:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "901e4951c072356da41343d24cc6ec58d4928cc060666827083e037ea0c38acb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.08060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}