Pith Number

pith:4GFIZNVW

pith:2026:4GFIZNVWL3ZK7VY2AGTTHU2QMN

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Enabling Multi-Dimensional Distributed Trace Comparison with Contrast

Antoine Kaufmann, Jonathan Mace, Rodrigo Fonseca, Vaastav Anand

arxiv:2607.19102 v1 · 2026-07-21 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4GFIZNVWL3ZK7VY2AGTTHU2QMN}

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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	2026-07-22T01:24:08.739325Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e18a8cb6b65ef2afd71a01a733d350637599542ad09d92e75988c22784b8d520

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.19102 · arxiv_version: 2607.19102v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.19102 · pith_short_12: 4GFIZNVWL3ZK · pith_short_16: 4GFIZNVWL3ZK7VY2 · pith_short_8: 4GFIZNVW

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/4GFIZNVWL3ZK7VY2AGTTHU2QMN \
  | 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: e18a8cb6b65ef2afd71a01a733d350637599542ad09d92e75988c22784b8d520

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f883ce59c1cc4c1d005f9b797eeafe6416a9e0274a3bb74a933be58d7e18c2eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-21T13:44:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5669a19f60d36f96b9fa2ac10b1a5d40f76be609c994809301cfa13104fbac5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.19102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}