Pith Number

pith:4E5FRQV7

pith:2019:4E5FRQV75INPJSP2MXOTJSPWLW

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Random Gossip Processes in Smartphone Peer-to-Peer Networks

Alex Weaver, Calvin Newport

arxiv:1902.02763 v1 · 2019-02-07 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4E5FRQV75INPJSP2MXOTJSPWLW}

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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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:32.260762Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e13a58c2bfea1af4c9fa65dd34c9f65d822e51f1b0e590c7301003457f857c07

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.02763 · arxiv_version: 1902.02763v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.02763 · pith_short_12: 4E5FRQV75INP · pith_short_16: 4E5FRQV75INPJSP2 · pith_short_8: 4E5FRQV7

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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/4E5FRQV75INPJSP2MXOTJSPWLW \
  | 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: e13a58c2bfea1af4c9fa65dd34c9f65d822e51f1b0e590c7301003457f857c07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6758d6f2a133233fc4847ff4f7eef9763b549e6fbd2d9b6265d2ca1fb36843c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-07T18:42:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5770028850777092ab06d316bcfacb9a18a3a59f7f53a0d2325bf82c646c4569"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.02763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}