Pith Number

pith:Q4XEADBZ

pith:2016:Q4XEADBZ3DUJHWSC64ZKUCYWPT

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Aggregated evaluation of operation quality of complex hierarchical network systems

Olexandr Polishchuk

arxiv:1603.02317 v3 · 2016-03-04 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q4XEADBZ3DUJHWSC64ZKUCYWPT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:24.907437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

872e400c39d8e893da42f732aa0b167cd0e488718b4a1b9783a35d0b80833f0b

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.02317 · arxiv_version: 1603.02317v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.02317 · pith_short_12: Q4XEADBZ3DUJ · pith_short_16: Q4XEADBZ3DUJHWSC · pith_short_8: Q4XEADBZ

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/Q4XEADBZ3DUJHWSC64ZKUCYWPT \
  | 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: 872e400c39d8e893da42f732aa0b167cd0e488718b4a1b9783a35d0b80833f0b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b93c74dbfabe05040ef7810a7a1a26a3718fbe3b1a317bf77850ba0bd93359c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-04T07:08:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bec23eee55f9e713706c2c750832e7c2685ece367aa01d58e7bcfa47f15bd4d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.02317",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}