Pith Number

pith:6ZR5NYVG

pith:2010:6ZR5NYVGCXESJHF65AWXOPQEFH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Implicit and explicit communication in decentralized control

Anant Sahai, Pulkit Grover

arxiv:1010.4854 v1 · 2010-10-23 · cs.IT · cs.SY · math.IT · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZR5NYVGCXESJHF65AWXOPQEFH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:50.003621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f663d6e2a615c9249cbee82d773e0429e68f69a6da82de9942cd8e6b8c7d777d

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4854 · arxiv_version: 1010.4854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4854 · pith_short_12: 6ZR5NYVGCXES · pith_short_16: 6ZR5NYVGCXESJHF6 · pith_short_8: 6ZR5NYVG

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/6ZR5NYVGCXESJHF65AWXOPQEFH \
  | 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: f663d6e2a615c9249cbee82d773e0429e68f69a6da82de9942cd8e6b8c7d777d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21c200e9a9cee7592ec0d480502f0793b6c6ed189f4a6359091926d1cbc96337",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-23T07:34:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c5ba89456c01fbaa0013808ba9019dccace97cbebb0fd4519979ba9ae06ef03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}