Pith Number

pith:XQXFZ6FX

pith:2008:XQXFZ6FX62TQ464IZFRYY7YWDT

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On the Refinement of Liveness Properties of Distributed Systems

Paul C. Attie

arxiv:0801.0949 v1 · 2008-01-07 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQXFZ6FX62TQ464IZFRYY7YWDT}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-04T15:06:40.399291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc2e5cf8b7f6a70e7b88c9638c7f161ce7a54ff47807270082f1376ea5afbbd2

Aliases

arxiv: 0801.0949 · arxiv_version: 0801.0949v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0801.0949 · pith_short_12: XQXFZ6FX62TQ · pith_short_16: XQXFZ6FX62TQ464I · pith_short_8: XQXFZ6FX

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/XQXFZ6FX62TQ464IZFRYY7YWDT \
  | 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: bc2e5cf8b7f6a70e7b88c9638c7f161ce7a54ff47807270082f1376ea5afbbd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2604b4ddd2935e2a59072e593db5b044054b9bd761e89e7aacbca33602ba5fdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2008-01-07T11:55:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c116bdd8d9cb3cc4ab6466aed317f3408c0d89319e9c82fb7b1e21c7bf0a9c40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0801.0949",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}