Pith Number

pith:3LYLRH22

pith:2015:3LYLRH223ZZZMJHHFPATAIT3ES

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scaling laws for consensus protocols subject to noise

Alex Olshevsky, Ali Jadbabaie

arxiv:1508.00036 v3 · 2015-07-31 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.SY · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LYLRH223ZZZMJHHFPATAIT3ES}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:08.656936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

daf0b89f5ade739624e72bc130227b24b553b5f513326ccd28fe51dd201eae97

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.00036 · arxiv_version: 1508.00036v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.00036 · pith_short_12: 3LYLRH223ZZZ · pith_short_16: 3LYLRH223ZZZMJHH · pith_short_8: 3LYLRH22

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/3LYLRH223ZZZMJHHFPATAIT3ES \
  | 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: daf0b89f5ade739624e72bc130227b24b553b5f513326ccd28fe51dd201eae97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49f862d4622c702b704cedce0bfd8a1fa19d0e07393eb20de86bec1eae6eb587",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.SY",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-31T21:28:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96ea3aa477ddface76731beb151de18763b971e74bc8d97fd0fcabe30c5f1811"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.00036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}