Pith Number

pith:VATSGSFV

pith:2010:VATSGSFVGDJZAM2ZFMTD7A7XF4

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A Calculus of Consistent Component-based Software Updates

Dejun Wang, Junqing Chen, Linpeng Huang, Xiaohui Xu

arxiv:1011.6496 v1 · 2010-11-30 · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VATSGSFVGDJZAM2ZFMTD7A7XF4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:26.790766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8272348b530d39033592b263f83f72f28c6a8a17b30c1c7e949ff5540a03dce

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.6496 · arxiv_version: 1011.6496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.6496 · pith_short_12: VATSGSFVGDJZ · pith_short_16: VATSGSFVGDJZAM2Z · pith_short_8: VATSGSFV

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/VATSGSFVGDJZAM2ZFMTD7A7XF4 \
  | 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: a8272348b530d39033592b263f83f72f28c6a8a17b30c1c7e949ff5540a03dce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4355a8f1ab6f5c9be804c07973898454a18fed45ebcb9b2f1e60d30725c3259",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-30T09:34:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53a3cadc3584f78a5d10e792673cc49206c43765127d68d39b39804d9eab2ae2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.6496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}