Pith Number

pith:IWB47FVQ

pith:2015:IWB47FVQ6RZSXCZCLFGBM3FG3Y

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Iterative Merging Algorithm for Cooperative Data Exchange

Ni Ding, Parastoo Sadeghi, Rodney A. Kennedy

arxiv:1503.03165 v2 · 2015-03-11 · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWB47FVQ6RZSXCZCLFGBM3FG3Y}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:02.113343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4583cf96b0f4732b8b22594c166ca6de127d34b80925eb55d6b3f7c550bc275a

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03165 · arxiv_version: 1503.03165v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03165 · pith_short_12: IWB47FVQ6RZS · pith_short_16: IWB47FVQ6RZSXCZC · pith_short_8: IWB47FVQ

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/IWB47FVQ6RZSXCZCLFGBM3FG3Y \
  | 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: 4583cf96b0f4732b8b22594c166ca6de127d34b80925eb55d6b3f7c550bc275a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f57a21bac97009deae5f87d7714a932007a8cc71a98ee6490b010027d94804dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-11T04:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6d5320bbd8a995564edad6608848837e90c979be6e618b45333d257186796fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}