Pith Number

pith:GZL3GVBE

pith:2017:GZL3GVBE4AEV3VMHZ4HABKWR7V

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Is Our Model for Contention Resolution Wrong?

Maxwell Young, William C. Anderton

arxiv:1705.09271 v2 · 2017-05-25 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GZL3GVBE4AEV3VMHZ4HABKWR7V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:15.383327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3657b35424e0095dd587cf0e00aad1fd5647a00b274f01576c768f6cd7194aa1

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09271 · arxiv_version: 1705.09271v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09271 · pith_short_12: GZL3GVBE4AEV · pith_short_16: GZL3GVBE4AEV3VMH · pith_short_8: GZL3GVBE

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/GZL3GVBE4AEV3VMHZ4HABKWR7V \
  | 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: 3657b35424e0095dd587cf0e00aad1fd5647a00b274f01576c768f6cd7194aa1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0593b4bf43b5eae8bd0b3bbf8a9d1e830b0bcc66f7833b550245bd98e1792908",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-25T17:37:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "201f9114248433fc9e6690c5b0104f57d8a7535e8d6246ff3460ede9c0c38a72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}