Pith Number

pith:AHNLYUAL

pith:2020:AHNLYUALUC3SRY6MSG7VWWKG2M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Byzantine Eventual Consistency and the Fundamental Limits of Peer-to-Peer Databases

Heidi Howard, Martin Kleppmann

arxiv:2012.00472 v1 · 2020-12-01 · cs.DC · cs.CR · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AHNLYUALUC3SRY6MSG7VWWKG2M}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:56:16.749105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01dabc500ba0b728e3cc91bf5b5946d319e0b5ad2de946b0e61025b4e0ef2a02

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.00472 · arxiv_version: 2012.00472v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.00472 · pith_short_12: AHNLYUALUC3S · pith_short_16: AHNLYUALUC3SRY6M · pith_short_8: AHNLYUAL

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/AHNLYUALUC3SRY6MSG7VWWKG2M \
  | 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: 01dabc500ba0b728e3cc91bf5b5946d319e0b5ad2de946b0e61025b4e0ef2a02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "822e043589a818fb3408a6ffd320cb1871f148de1c05d6c3d762c97a52c2854f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-01T13:24:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fcdb2bdb11a668246e082bc7194c005ce628715ce00448d7eb51c3d6c8a959d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.00472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}