Pith Number

pith:UVLRENRM

pith:2009:UVLRENRMC7WN56SZSSZEWWWNDO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large-Scale Time-Shifted Streaming Delivery

Gwendal Simon, Yaning Liu

arxiv:0911.1226 v2 · 2009-11-06 · cs.NI · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UVLRENRMC7WN56SZSSZEWWWNDO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:08:44.893555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a55712362c17ecdefa5994b24b5acd1ba10954ea3dccba5c216b12ed86150079

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.1226 · arxiv_version: 0911.1226v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.1226 · pith_short_12: UVLRENRMC7WN · pith_short_16: UVLRENRMC7WN56SZ · pith_short_8: UVLRENRM

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/UVLRENRMC7WN56SZSSZEWWWNDO \
  | 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: a55712362c17ecdefa5994b24b5acd1ba10954ea3dccba5c216b12ed86150079

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c25aabf2104861b1d8e53d04c677a83d967041d63c0d7c63eb4bcfd36deed771",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-06T11:10:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94e46a7fe073ca7c9e8d41a96dca79e05555f5cf641c31c1eedfdd9836474c01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.1226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}