Pith Number

pith:5LBFTYNV

pith:2011:5LBFTYNV6JEUQFP2O4S7SCCTJI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Edge-preserving self-healing: keeping network backbones densely connected

Amitabh Trehan, Atish Das Sarma

arxiv:1108.5893 v1 · 2011-08-30 · cs.DC · cs.DS · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5LBFTYNV6JEUQFP2O4S7SCCTJI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:28.267509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eac259e1b5f2494815fa7725f908534a31ec6f4e394b79ceb3184d369c564dc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.5893 · arxiv_version: 1108.5893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.5893 · pith_short_12: 5LBFTYNV6JEU · pith_short_16: 5LBFTYNV6JEUQFP2 · pith_short_8: 5LBFTYNV

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/5LBFTYNV6JEUQFP2O4S7SCCTJI \
  | 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: eac259e1b5f2494815fa7725f908534a31ec6f4e394b79ceb3184d369c564dc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "727121a316c7f30def1501323a1367bd5a23109ce790ce0db674460d189beb31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-30T09:51:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4af660301abe3c3059f574a22ce00e0d4d0a7f1de8ca23644106e6a791506d79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.5893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}