Pith Number

pith:VSUDMAZO

pith:2010:VSUDMAZOS5PJA72SWDC4PWNBYY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to meet asynchronously (almost) everywhere

Andrzej Pelc, Arnaud Labourel (LaBRI), Jurek Czyzowicz

arxiv:1001.0890 v1 · 2010-01-06 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSUDMAZOS5PJA72SWDC4PWNBYY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:56:58.503927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aca836032e975e907f52b0c5c7d9a1c63c8d13f3e26f103c06c4613ccaa0fb30

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.0890 · arxiv_version: 1001.0890v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.0890 · pith_short_12: VSUDMAZOS5PJ · pith_short_16: VSUDMAZOS5PJA72S · pith_short_8: VSUDMAZO

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/VSUDMAZOS5PJA72SWDC4PWNBYY \
  | 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: aca836032e975e907f52b0c5c7d9a1c63c8d13f3e26f103c06c4613ccaa0fb30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19704f2df4a591f188b623abd5ba08089730e59ed28883684c2655482ce4f38f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-06T13:27:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0427377a75a88a3c83210714f774d628a32cd0869ed08c5e29d18bb9f54d3e13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.0890",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}