Pith Number

pith:EXGJLGKQ

pith:2013:EXGJLGKQ3VI2QWP7X4MDQCKYFD

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On Negotiation as Concurrency Primitive

Javier Esparza, Joerg Desel

arxiv:1307.2145 v1 · 2013-07-08 · cs.LO · cs.FL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EXGJLGKQ3VI2QWP7X4MDQCKYFD}

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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	2026-05-18T03:19:02.290373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25cc959950dd51a859ffbf1838095828e095497369d429ddf0cfb6880bb90b62

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.2145 · arxiv_version: 1307.2145v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.2145 · pith_short_12: EXGJLGKQ3VI2 · pith_short_16: EXGJLGKQ3VI2QWP7 · pith_short_8: EXGJLGKQ

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/EXGJLGKQ3VI2QWP7X4MDQCKYFD \
  | 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: 25cc959950dd51a859ffbf1838095828e095497369d429ddf0cfb6880bb90b62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa4f3c4e001df37946bd6c97cb243d2931da334577af26160170007f00bd7d56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.FL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-08T16:26:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc5a12edc795051da7f9b6994ba8e175d524c489b8da76c3eabe81eb319df955"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1307.2145",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}