Pith Number

pith:Q6O34DKU

pith:2017:Q6O34DKUAEIG7BZ3U2WXNNJOVT

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Communication vs Distributed Computation: an alternative trade-off curve

Christina Fragouli, Mohammed Karmoose, Yahya H. Ezzeldin

arxiv:1705.08966 v1 · 2017-05-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q6O34DKUAEIG7BZ3U2WXNNJOVT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:40.815535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

879dbe0d5401106f873ba6ad76b52eace17eb3e5277b0e551856fdcb802c55dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08966 · arxiv_version: 1705.08966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08966 · pith_short_12: Q6O34DKUAEIG · pith_short_16: Q6O34DKUAEIG7BZ3 · pith_short_8: Q6O34DKU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6O34DKUAEIG7BZ3U2WXNNJOVT \
  | 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: 879dbe0d5401106f873ba6ad76b52eace17eb3e5277b0e551856fdcb802c55dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "114fa405938f641455fcabb1f811e2779b01e17026e7c431321c9cb9fce29cd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-24T21:18:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a8c44ade06e12e01fb936564e6264afe7411551d3c37e61baa62a2848bfbe15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}