Pith Number

pith:5RBP6JGL

pith:2017:5RBP6JGL2C6OHE6422B6F4ELYA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beeping a Maximal Independent Set Fast

Nancy Lynch, Stephan Holzer

arxiv:1704.07133 v1 · 2017-04-24 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RBP6JGL2C6OHE6422B6F4ELYA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:45:53.466546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec42ff24cbd0bce393dcd683e2f08bc039603323f40100f45192c6cc45f34722

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07133 · arxiv_version: 1704.07133v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07133 · pith_short_12: 5RBP6JGL2C6O · pith_short_16: 5RBP6JGL2C6OHE64 · pith_short_8: 5RBP6JGL

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/5RBP6JGL2C6OHE6422B6F4ELYA \
  | 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: ec42ff24cbd0bce393dcd683e2f08bc039603323f40100f45192c6cc45f34722

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b6c69c8a892a32c8201d8745bc2578c26839f08e18e795afa8271e9db57dcfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-24T10:42:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ac6a713bf2b93cc3de8141877e852fc39d123fae1a9757405b27ea8f8229896"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}