Pith Number

pith:NB4N426V

pith:2018:NB4N426V2JMQBCO5K7AOL6244G

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CASPaxos: Replicated State Machines without logs

Denis Rystsov

arxiv:1802.07000 v9 · 2018-02-20 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NB4N426V2JMQBCO5K7AOL6244G}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:51.914269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6878de6bd5d2590089dd57c0e5fb5ce1bcb033c7f16d704aae174bba61a3551f

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.07000 · arxiv_version: 1802.07000v9 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.07000 · pith_short_12: NB4N426V2JMQ · pith_short_16: NB4N426V2JMQBCO5 · pith_short_8: NB4N426V

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/NB4N426V2JMQBCO5K7AOL6244G \
  | 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: 6878de6bd5d2590089dd57c0e5fb5ce1bcb033c7f16d704aae174bba61a3551f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9331575a1fc62a05c556072dcdce4e7132abe8b588df6645084a339463a650c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-20T08:09:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6fe97672555b33eb333eacf9809e9bdb99c3cedc16c367e414d6ba8a121a876"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.07000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 9
  }
}