Pith Number

pith:DFQIKT4C

pith:2017:DFQIKT4CSNMKAUELGSUJYKXWCB

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Shape Formation by Programmable Particles

Giovanni Viglietta, Giuseppe A. Di Luna, Nicola Santoro, Paola Flocchini, Yukiko Yamauchi

arxiv:1705.03538 v3 · 2017-05-09 · cs.DC · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DFQIKT4CSNMKAUELGSUJYKXWCB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:41.314949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1960854f829358a0508b34a89c2af6105ff111736f1f8b34c3e648fcff22b135

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.03538 · arxiv_version: 1705.03538v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.03538 · pith_short_12: DFQIKT4CSNMK · pith_short_16: DFQIKT4CSNMKAUEL · pith_short_8: DFQIKT4C

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/DFQIKT4CSNMKAUELGSUJYKXWCB \
  | 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: 1960854f829358a0508b34a89c2af6105ff111736f1f8b34c3e648fcff22b135

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd086a3229e15b070dfd95d3425a733a92b0b1491cc8e01e737c17e2c5946ced",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-09T20:57:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c6088051e02edd78e78395e060b419038398a9796644c3abd750f39d303006b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.03538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}