Pith Number

pith:E3SBSU5Y

pith:2018:E3SBSU5YYRKXVVNFZ3MBHWGZD4

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Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?

Diego Didona, Jingjing Wang, Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel

arxiv:1803.04237 v1 · 2018-03-12 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E3SBSU5YYRKXVVNFZ3MBHWGZD4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:32.203871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26e41953b8c4557ad5a5ced813d8d91f17f90b53ac636916d16fc42abd328a97

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04237 · arxiv_version: 1803.04237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04237 · pith_short_12: E3SBSU5YYRKX · pith_short_16: E3SBSU5YYRKXVVNF · pith_short_8: E3SBSU5Y

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/E3SBSU5YYRKXVVNFZ3MBHWGZD4 \
  | 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: 26e41953b8c4557ad5a5ced813d8d91f17f90b53ac636916d16fc42abd328a97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4fb04278ca6de505c2ce0e920259951a15fc6e6503d762cd559d34b7f770cc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-12T13:18:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9eebe983f02787c3c5afa7b70b853858ee1a865574013d6289026053a5c3d024"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}