Pith Number

pith:4XGKOBLZ

pith:2026:4XGKOBLZFRNVAABVQORLLSNVEG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near-Resolution of the Tradeoff Conjecture in Distributed Proof Labeling Schemes

Arnold Filtser, Orr Fischer

arxiv:2605.19078 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XGKOBLZFRNVAABVQORLLSNVEG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-20T01:05:26.337625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5cca705792c5b50003583a2b5c9b521a54aa6dec5f5ff622f6e9edabaf65953

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19078 · arxiv_version: 2605.19078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19078 · pith_short_12: 4XGKOBLZFRNV · pith_short_16: 4XGKOBLZFRNVAABV · pith_short_8: 4XGKOBLZ

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/4XGKOBLZFRNVAABVQORLLSNVEG \
  | 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: e5cca705792c5b50003583a2b5c9b521a54aa6dec5f5ff622f6e9edabaf65953

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a705a9371a92281c920d044d4aaf8421644ab25434315932b861c72737a2e913",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T20:08:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edfe096b253e22c6b5f949626e868ac438716d5c722ebc21748449887044867f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}