Pith Number

pith:MZ3YWGW7

pith:2019:MZ3YWGW7X63LJ2XFRU7MHHWFK4

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Clairvoyant State Machine Replication

Maurice Herlihy, Rida Bazzi

arxiv:1905.11607 v1 · 2019-05-28 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZ3YWGW7X63LJ2XFRU7MHHWFK4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:44:52.874126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66778b1adfbfb6b4eae58d3ec39ec557092c2466e1b34f43dc036f601a0f1916

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.11607 · arxiv_version: 1905.11607v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.11607 · pith_short_12: MZ3YWGW7X63L · pith_short_16: MZ3YWGW7X63LJ2XF · pith_short_8: MZ3YWGW7

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/MZ3YWGW7X63LJ2XFRU7MHHWFK4 \
  | 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: 66778b1adfbfb6b4eae58d3ec39ec557092c2466e1b34f43dc036f601a0f1916

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "960b373f40a276f9cd91cc1d94c3b789e2dcfa0e26e82b7925a68c197ae738c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-28T04:46:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "016e59144e0045fbf1e1f691f49715af8eddbd6bc59afa79a4decdd2a1a81efa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.11607",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}