Pith Number

pith:2S3PT4XJ

pith:2010:2S3PT4XJIPOBYGFCZOANIACVSD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Consensus Algorithm with Linear Per-Bit Complexity

Guanfeng Liang, Nitin Vaidya

arxiv:1008.4551 v1 · 2010-08-26 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2S3PT4XJIPOBYGFCZOANIACVSD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:45.123556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4b6f9f2e943dc1c18a2cb80d4005590e83e0ad374e038b2c0ff868844226975

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.4551 · arxiv_version: 1008.4551v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.4551 · pith_short_12: 2S3PT4XJIPOB · pith_short_16: 2S3PT4XJIPOBYGFC · pith_short_8: 2S3PT4XJ

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/2S3PT4XJIPOBYGFCZOANIACVSD \
  | 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: d4b6f9f2e943dc1c18a2cb80d4005590e83e0ad374e038b2c0ff868844226975

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e30a51bb41b659008a2715e5f522a560358e51aa8caa92b74198f957d394b9c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-26T17:29:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42360072a8d90396f02b1d31cdd98e0c93efbe0dbbe9ea1309f78514c8de21bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.4551",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}