Pith Number

pith:A36LBKWS

pith:2019:A36LBKWSW5BKP2FVZ5LIBTRRK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Leader Election in Programmable Matter

Ron Lavi, Shay Kutten, William K. Moses Jr, Yuval Emek

arxiv:1905.00580 v1 · 2019-05-02 · cs.DC · cs.DS · cs.RO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A36LBKWSW5BKP2FVZ5LIBTRRK4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:11.495629Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06fcb0aad2b742a7e8b5cf5680ce31573549c5261ad8391048cc3537c77219cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.00580 · arxiv_version: 1905.00580v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.00580 · pith_short_12: A36LBKWSW5BK · pith_short_16: A36LBKWSW5BKP2FV · pith_short_8: A36LBKWS

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/A36LBKWSW5BKP2FVZ5LIBTRRK4 \
  | 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: 06fcb0aad2b742a7e8b5cf5680ce31573549c5261ad8391048cc3537c77219cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7504a628c8b125da84650527853a47cf49f4b55d9ff63a5f5be6f0e3fb94bf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-02T05:56:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b498f1e7ad4637c57bac0b77a13ca34ecd16a51e209b68e0f445b1507022676d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.00580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}