Pith Number

pith:ZAU4X5V6

pith:2018:ZAU4X5V6H52T7SUNTBGN63JL36

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Tutorial on dynamic average consensus: the problem, its applications, and the algorithms

Bryan Van Scoy, Jorge Cortes, Kevin M. Lynch, Randy A. Freeman, Solmaz S. Kia, Sonia Martinez

arxiv:1803.04628 v2 · 2018-03-13 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZAU4X5V6H52T7SUNTBGN63JL36}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:02.247154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c829cbf6be3f753fca8d984cdf6d2bdf8517def6c316155921f042171328e94c

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04628 · arxiv_version: 1803.04628v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04628 · pith_short_12: ZAU4X5V6H52T · pith_short_16: ZAU4X5V6H52T7SUN · pith_short_8: ZAU4X5V6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZAU4X5V6H52T7SUNTBGN63JL36 \
  | 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: c829cbf6be3f753fca8d984cdf6d2bdf8517def6c316155921f042171328e94c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f76c81d5b53896504409e5f122fe3354e3411ede41dd9348de756a6ec92f1ef7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-13T05:33:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "597f66c15e6f23984cbec9313587dbccbad8e0fc972337105530aebbbd324617"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04628",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}