Pith Number

pith:4ZDSHJWF

pith:2019:4ZDSHJWFBCAPCKZ7HETVCFYQLB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the complexity of fault-tolerant consensus

Dariusz R. Kowalski, Jaroslaw Mirek

arxiv:1905.07063 v1 · 2019-05-16 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZDSHJWFBCAPCKZ7HETVCFYQLB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:57.405624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e64723a6c50880f12b3f3927511710584ad9f2285efa4ef4103e426421ea6d98

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.07063 · arxiv_version: 1905.07063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.07063 · pith_short_12: 4ZDSHJWFBCAP · pith_short_16: 4ZDSHJWFBCAPCKZ7 · pith_short_8: 4ZDSHJWF

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/4ZDSHJWFBCAPCKZ7HETVCFYQLB \
  | 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: e64723a6c50880f12b3f3927511710584ad9f2285efa4ef4103e426421ea6d98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f359f691c44c6025db4886e369855cc7072e15a9528e1628e2ba9d2a77aa932f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T23:36:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca796f7164167f0cdc6678bf275b6c82b9c2b815da88c12c78aa005d413cfd2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.07063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}