Pith Number

pith:6FMWYVM2

pith:2017:6FMWYVM2JN6ZQ3GLH62GSSZHBQ

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Verification of a lazy cache coherence protocol against a weak memory model

Christopher J. Banks, Marco Elver, Paul Jackson, Ruth Hoffmann, Susmit Sarkar, Vijay Nagarajan

arxiv:1705.08262 v1 · 2017-05-18 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6FMWYVM2JN6ZQ3GLH62GSSZHBQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:48.872504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1596c559a4b7d986ccb3fb4694b270c18453cd34ebd944d45e8a7f5ee54a27d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08262 · arxiv_version: 1705.08262v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08262 · pith_short_12: 6FMWYVM2JN6Z · pith_short_16: 6FMWYVM2JN6ZQ3GL · pith_short_8: 6FMWYVM2

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/6FMWYVM2JN6ZQ3GLH62GSSZHBQ \
  | 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: f1596c559a4b7d986ccb3fb4694b270c18453cd34ebd944d45e8a7f5ee54a27d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "518a98769bb8a27d0727ad3c20dfd2df5b0e7befc6bc51df640f284d6615623b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-18T23:25:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f48b057b657a4f028184e08ab062990e85af4e4f4a2ae4816f955ed3563e7841"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08262",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}