Pith Number

pith:5VEY6QU5

pith:2010:5VEY6QU5JKIV6NWCAZZ75IVHQS

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A Light-Weight Communication Library for Distributed Computing

Cees de Laat (Amsterdam), Derek Groen (Leiden), Paola Grosso (Amsterdam), Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden), Steven Rieder (Leiden)

arxiv:1008.2767 v1 · 2010-08-16 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VEY6QU5JKIV6NWCAZZ75IVHQS}

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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	2026-05-18T04:42:12.131102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed498f429d4a915f36c20673fea2a7848e1a8993e9d5b7ee82829180751793ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.2767 · arxiv_version: 1008.2767v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.2767 · pith_short_12: 5VEY6QU5JKIV · pith_short_16: 5VEY6QU5JKIV6NWC · pith_short_8: 5VEY6QU5

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/5VEY6QU5JKIV6NWCAZZ75IVHQS \
  | 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: ed498f429d4a915f36c20673fea2a7848e1a8993e9d5b7ee82829180751793ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d80af8e8ac954f8eb7bd2ca45fb2aabab7fc9b2496f013aa88bd2f2a73d29f13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-16T20:14:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70d0c29d272e43a6b0533f0ee5d7448f599b793010ca2f6f7a3e720a59afa804"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.2767",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}