Pith Number

pith:4D4UJXBL

pith:2017:4D4UJXBL6LFJDBJE2IHXXK3TPY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Backbone Creation in an SINR Network without Knowledge of Location

Dariusz R. Kowalski, Shailesh Vaya, William K. Moses Jr.

arxiv:1702.02460 v1 · 2017-02-08 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4D4UJXBL6LFJDBJE2IHXXK3TPY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:05.894706Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0f944dc2bf2ca918524d20f7bab737e1559ac016a52750a258878ef77c28210

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02460 · arxiv_version: 1702.02460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02460 · pith_short_12: 4D4UJXBL6LFJ · pith_short_16: 4D4UJXBL6LFJDBJE · pith_short_8: 4D4UJXBL

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/4D4UJXBL6LFJDBJE2IHXXK3TPY \
  | 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: e0f944dc2bf2ca918524d20f7bab737e1559ac016a52750a258878ef77c28210

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2525a0a184df1e31341a22b44dce8f13a14d65b1974ab20d6af630a39635f44d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-08T15:14:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad803c5c3c4c920d04099a725b22b47cc903649c5053c9ea7a6b243642b57cf8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}