Pith Number

pith:N5XX5YRQ

pith:2012:N5XX5YRQUW3OJM5OQHYI7LO6YM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

Johannes Schneider, Leonid Barenboim, Michael Elkin, Seth Pettie

arxiv:1202.1983 v3 · 2012-02-09 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N5XX5YRQUW3OJM5OQHYI7LO6YM}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:26:19.112971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f6f7ee230a5b6e4b3ae81f08faddec3269bf88962e50593f83e42cc0eead03c

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1983 · arxiv_version: 1202.1983v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1983 · pith_short_12: N5XX5YRQUW3O · pith_short_16: N5XX5YRQUW3OJM5O · pith_short_8: N5XX5YRQ

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/N5XX5YRQUW3OJM5OQHYI7LO6YM \
  | 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: 6f6f7ee230a5b6e4b3ae81f08faddec3269bf88962e50593f83e42cc0eead03c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "accd6d6127a92cb3da63eba9cf16bb6f0bdad9c0977aadfec1dab8641ad81fc1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-09T13:46:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe7177bea2f454321be9a2d57452a82b9783ec92ff93a2cb3514506a894c0fef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1983",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}