Pith Number

pith:4JBL5XUJ

pith:2015:4JBL5XUJK72EVTJZN4NSKD6CPU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Knowledge, Level of Symmetry, and Time of Leader Election

Andrzej Pelc, Emanuele G. Fusco

arxiv:1508.01300 v1 · 2015-08-06 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4JBL5XUJK72EVTJZN4NSKD6CPU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:35:42.952813Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e242bede8957f44acd396f1b250fc27d1f9cb52647e2cfc20a0d7bd753d20784

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01300 · arxiv_version: 1508.01300v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01300 · pith_short_12: 4JBL5XUJK72E · pith_short_16: 4JBL5XUJK72EVTJZ · pith_short_8: 4JBL5XUJ

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/4JBL5XUJK72EVTJZN4NSKD6CPU \
  | 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: e242bede8957f44acd396f1b250fc27d1f9cb52647e2cfc20a0d7bd753d20784

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bd268b14b530ea5b816714d490eda58e9671fcec11aee45655edaf13a9e142c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-06T07:42:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3d3f4f090f55206b11f84a34e9f376156c599fd9b79e622d863d4f76e47fe80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}