Pith Number

pith:V65JA53U

pith:2017:V65JA53UBIIXYOTX3Y7DZ5HSJA

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Fast Space Optimal Leader Election in Population Protocols

Grzegorz Stachowiak, Leszek Gasieniec

arxiv:1704.07649 v3 · 2017-04-25 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V65JA53UBIIXYOTX3Y7DZ5HSJA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:06.997364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afba9077740a117c3a77de3e3cf4f2482304b5aa269fdf26e00eb4f540f6d097

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07649 · arxiv_version: 1704.07649v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07649 · pith_short_12: V65JA53UBIIX · pith_short_16: V65JA53UBIIXYOTX · pith_short_8: V65JA53U

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/V65JA53UBIIXYOTX3Y7DZ5HSJA \
  | 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: afba9077740a117c3a77de3e3cf4f2482304b5aa269fdf26e00eb4f540f6d097

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7dba9dd01b98ac93f13ab98ed3d5eb778346e8bf0b525f1bb2265597c3e0644",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-25T11:57:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19063937b681fcca1799a9d601694f011c0ef5492049808fc8f1128f5ed129d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07649",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}