Pith Number

pith:3SPVZ4JR

pith:2018:3SPVZ4JRBN7DDFYJN44PFWUOKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Complexity of Leader Election: A Chasm at Diameter Two

Gopal Pandurangan, Peter Robinson, Soumyottam Chatterjee

arxiv:1809.00273 v1 · 2018-09-02 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3SPVZ4JRBN7DDFYJN44PFWUOKY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:06:35.613995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc9f5cf1310b7e3197096f38f2da8e5602765c0c6793f1e1a97ecaf93e326926

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.00273 · arxiv_version: 1809.00273v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.00273 · pith_short_12: 3SPVZ4JRBN7D · pith_short_16: 3SPVZ4JRBN7DDFYJ · pith_short_8: 3SPVZ4JR

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/3SPVZ4JRBN7DDFYJN44PFWUOKY \
  | 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: dc9f5cf1310b7e3197096f38f2da8e5602765c0c6793f1e1a97ecaf93e326926

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbbbe447e7b3e3d1fb204b15ec417fc887658997f6e38b3394db21724b0e6127",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-02T00:30:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2868716b5d76ebe8f1a0d6f95a0ccaa1edb74ccd942c0a1ffa740a07b11dc5dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.00273",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}