Pith Number

pith:4VQPY4NO

pith:2012:4VQPY4NOO5JFGNRMRJK3MGM7C6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Stabilizing Byzantine Resilient Topology Discovery and Message Delivery

Elad M. Schiller, Omri Liba, Shlomi Dolev

arxiv:1208.5620 v3 · 2012-08-28 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VQPY4NOO5JFGNRMRJK3MGM7C6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:35:01.858672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e560fc71ae775253362c8a55b6199f178ccd4efdd8c73b723f0c208ee4282fd0

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5620 · arxiv_version: 1208.5620v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5620 · pith_short_12: 4VQPY4NOO5JF · pith_short_16: 4VQPY4NOO5JFGNRM · pith_short_8: 4VQPY4NO

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/4VQPY4NOO5JFGNRMRJK3MGM7C6 \
  | 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: e560fc71ae775253362c8a55b6199f178ccd4efdd8c73b723f0c208ee4282fd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5b4656f34aba785b4df0361c6c7ebe45a27bb411b23f2cf86ea3e7526962701",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-28T11:03:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f67fb148397d3ebdeebd6e4f40afde76f351768fe4b4aeada5702c1940e43c5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}