Pith Number

pith:Q5JK45YL

pith:2017:Q5JK45YLMK3YZBKY3COV7LKJXA

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A Bitcoin-inspired infinite-server model with a random fluid limit

Maria Frolkova, Michel Mandjes

arxiv:1703.08406 v1 · 2017-03-24 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q5JK45YLMK3YZBKY3COV7LKJXA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:00.010298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8752ae770b62b78c8558d89d5fad49b80f75276b213429ff7e1bc1b766979982

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.08406 · arxiv_version: 1703.08406v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.08406 · pith_short_12: Q5JK45YLMK3Y · pith_short_16: Q5JK45YLMK3YZBKY · pith_short_8: Q5JK45YL

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/Q5JK45YLMK3YZBKY3COV7LKJXA \
  | 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: 8752ae770b62b78c8558d89d5fad49b80f75276b213429ff7e1bc1b766979982

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ef7fa3ae09991e6eae4f3abc37506fb29d54f4bc233d47581f84099c4b0b7ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-24T13:38:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6126f8a4949fa18b79a8ea5264ca9824022cb6f7075f4b640cc2a03242e2cffd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.08406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}