Pith Number

pith:7CTNRVQW

pith:2017:7CTNRVQWA2C75XUVTE6FXQOPNO

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Pragmatic Primitives for Non-blocking Data Structures

Eric Ruppert, Faith Ellen, Trevor Brown

arxiv:1712.06688 v1 · 2017-12-18 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7CTNRVQWA2C75XUVTE6FXQOPNO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:40.761989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8a6d8d6160685fede95993c5bc1cf6b9355fac6395d4f89a727fa024985bcc5

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06688 · arxiv_version: 1712.06688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06688 · pith_short_12: 7CTNRVQWA2C7 · pith_short_16: 7CTNRVQWA2C75XUV · pith_short_8: 7CTNRVQW

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/7CTNRVQWA2C75XUVTE6FXQOPNO \
  | 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: f8a6d8d6160685fede95993c5bc1cf6b9355fac6395d4f89a727fa024985bcc5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c156835b43d98fed43499c9e4014e9822df7df49a591a86c15f12459ce7a5d45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T21:46:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dab3e0a61cbcd3a62af642ed98af894e8081c73a15b0fab56e08dd91cefb398"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}