Pith Number

pith:24WOSTZ5

pith:2018:24WOSTZ5N5WAJDZPJE7OVL7DD3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Power of Preprocessing in Decentralized Network Optimization

Juho Hirvonen, Jukka Suomela, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Stefan Schmid

arxiv:1812.00854 v1 · 2018-12-03 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{24WOSTZ5N5WAJDZPJE7OVL7DD3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:18.807876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d72ce94f3d6f6c048f2f493eeaafe31ec4beab82489c50f3eecbd351f1f020b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.00854 · arxiv_version: 1812.00854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.00854 · pith_short_12: 24WOSTZ5N5WA · pith_short_16: 24WOSTZ5N5WAJDZP · pith_short_8: 24WOSTZ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/24WOSTZ5N5WAJDZPJE7OVL7DD3 \
  | 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: d72ce94f3d6f6c048f2f493eeaafe31ec4beab82489c50f3eecbd351f1f020b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "188e1a34887b2e2a7d3ce439503d555c159f3cbc208881211691137ad3e35e73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-03T15:54:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c7ed217629dcea709c7f912756c0e6cad067ccf46c4a266978e480d4bc6eed6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.00854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}