Pith Number

pith:WTXPWGAT

pith:2010:WTXPWGAT5SYYZILK3R6L4KPLFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymptotically Optimal Randomized Rumor Spreading

Benjamin Doerr, Mahmoud Fouz

arxiv:1011.1868 v2 · 2010-11-08 · cs.DS · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTXPWGAT5SYYZILK3R6L4KPLFK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:37.301651Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4eefb1813ecb18ca16adc7cbe29eb2a987b3d4cc4b828a56a79dbfb90960036

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.1868 · arxiv_version: 1011.1868v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.1868 · pith_short_12: WTXPWGAT5SYY · pith_short_16: WTXPWGAT5SYYZILK · pith_short_8: WTXPWGAT

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/WTXPWGAT5SYYZILK3R6L4KPLFK \
  | 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: b4eefb1813ecb18ca16adc7cbe29eb2a987b3d4cc4b828a56a79dbfb90960036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f81bf456c249e7e18e39428225cbee447e8328571820eaf34bb3187c03e0845f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-08T18:43:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "151d188e47754442a462c39108c609e9f6c40b0e9559194f797f7d9ff19e384c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.1868",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}