Pith Number

pith:SPG6K7ZT

pith:2015:SPG6K7ZTDNRYHTK6IJTKGFKA2M

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The snowball effect of customer slowdown in critical many-server systems

Ivo Adan, Johan van Leeuwaarden, Jori Selen, Vidyadhar Kulkarni

arxiv:1502.02856 v3 · 2015-02-10 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SPG6K7ZTDNRYHTK6IJTKGFKA2M}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:48:33.245299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93cde57f331b6383cd5e4266a31540d32eaeb5073408f8c68594f93631d9a2c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.02856 · arxiv_version: 1502.02856v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.02856 · pith_short_12: SPG6K7ZTDNRY · pith_short_16: SPG6K7ZTDNRYHTK6 · pith_short_8: SPG6K7ZT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SPG6K7ZTDNRYHTK6IJTKGFKA2M \
  | 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: 93cde57f331b6383cd5e4266a31540d32eaeb5073408f8c68594f93631d9a2c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28a08695786e2ab6dc90319fe8bf09ab79814e77ab10eb2b006b092f041eacb0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-10T11:02:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53563fb7b528a582dff6552203f9d65879a3789a96c23fd24e95bed81182759d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.02856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}