Pith Number

pith:4FKSUQU5

pith:2014:4FKSUQU5XSH5MIACMYNIQAYKTD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Markov Chains

Madhavan Mukund, P S Thiagarajan, Ratul Saha, Sumit Kumar Jha

arxiv:1408.0979 v1 · 2014-08-05 · cs.DC · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FKSUQU5XSH5MIACMYNIQAYKTD}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:45:50.039849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1552a429dbc8fd62002661a88030a98fa00a26c9df24c7bc71ccee2fa519466

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0979 · arxiv_version: 1408.0979v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0979 · pith_short_12: 4FKSUQU5XSH5 · pith_short_16: 4FKSUQU5XSH5MIAC · pith_short_8: 4FKSUQU5

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/4FKSUQU5XSH5MIACMYNIQAYKTD \
  | 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: e1552a429dbc8fd62002661a88030a98fa00a26c9df24c7bc71ccee2fa519466

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a84d1b2c5a349260d3cd75bc9799d937e9bcc8bd5277a6f76c27d0d334c7667",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-05T14:13:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea0950a116d353e415424aadea8050608e3537b5be228191bdc6ef505d1bc6c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}