Pith Number

pith:43UXV3NC

pith:2018:43UXV3NCXEU4W5F5FKMXQWEZMZ

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The Age of Updates in a Simple Relay Network

Ali Maatouk, Anthony Ephremides, Mohamad Assaad

arxiv:1805.11720 v1 · 2018-05-29 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43UXV3NCXEU4W5F5FKMXQWEZMZ}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:36.783843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6e97aeda2b929cb74bd2a997858996679cd71c7b49f608acc58ef4238fbb29e

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11720 · arxiv_version: 1805.11720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11720 · pith_short_12: 43UXV3NCXEU4 · pith_short_16: 43UXV3NCXEU4W5F5 · pith_short_8: 43UXV3NC

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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/43UXV3NCXEU4W5F5FKMXQWEZMZ \
  | 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: e6e97aeda2b929cb74bd2a997858996679cd71c7b49f608acc58ef4238fbb29e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "815395ffed9f0a0d73c4cb088629beaa2d84bd75b190d02491da02025c33098c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-29T21:38:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "172deafc842cb48ba5199d7d1adaee3698bab3c01c49dbca42a30ac59793df20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}