Pith Number

pith:ATTVKK3X

pith:2019:ATTVKK3XHHBW4IU376D34WU53O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Avoiding Scalability Collapse by Restricting Concurrency

Alex Kogan, Dave Dice

arxiv:1905.10818 v2 · 2019-05-26 · cs.OS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ATTVKK3XHHBW4IU376D34WU53O}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:48.797090Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04e7552b7739c36e229bff87be5a9ddb89a51fc9415db3e8201a9f418ef40400

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.10818 · arxiv_version: 1905.10818v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.10818 · pith_short_12: ATTVKK3XHHBW · pith_short_16: ATTVKK3XHHBW4IU3 · pith_short_8: ATTVKK3X

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/ATTVKK3XHHBW4IU376D34WU53O \
  | 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: 04e7552b7739c36e229bff87be5a9ddb89a51fc9415db3e8201a9f418ef40400

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ebc5812d1c48b83e1d79820f9a155fd09966d3f58b93db50973462b0c0f591b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-26T15:38:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fad0674e616e2cef0f3b354af15e89aaf6765326d6aeb6f28418f75525b1ee1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.10818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}