Pith Number

pith:P6JNCV62

pith:2015:P6JNCV62P2VJYXXQXXQ5QPYN2U

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The Weakest Failure Detector for Eventual Consistency

Franck Petit, Petr Kuznetsov, Pierre Sens, Rachid Guerraoui, Swan Dubois

arxiv:1505.03469 v1 · 2015-05-13 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P6JNCV62P2VJYXXQXXQ5QPYN2U}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:12:01.244858Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f92d157da7eaa9c5ef0bde1d83f0dd51401c18fb4024373b84e20c7f2c8ab91

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.03469 · arxiv_version: 1505.03469v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.03469 · pith_short_12: P6JNCV62P2VJ · pith_short_16: P6JNCV62P2VJYXXQ · pith_short_8: P6JNCV62

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/P6JNCV62P2VJYXXQXXQ5QPYN2U \
  | 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: 7f92d157da7eaa9c5ef0bde1d83f0dd51401c18fb4024373b84e20c7f2c8ab91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81cb3427cdd3bf4217ad2f2485f28204cb8aead089ef7f4cb377a9eda7a84ddc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-13T17:38:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dba26acb5c89335d4baec901b37a38d7948e19ae27a03182918990373e5b527"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.03469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}