Pith Number

pith:AJCQLNID

pith:2023:AJCQLNID5ZU46Y3VKKBYC6WH72

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Consistency vs. Availability in Distributed Real-Time Systems

Christian Menard, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Ravi Akella, Shaokai Lin, Soroush Bateni

arxiv:2301.08906 v1 · 2023-01-21 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJCQLNID5ZU46Y3VKKBYC6WH72}

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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	2026-07-05T05:34:54.051342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

024505b503ee69cf63755283817ac7fe96014fa580c5285a98ed6cc8095fcc03

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.08906 · arxiv_version: 2301.08906v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.08906 · pith_short_12: AJCQLNID5ZU4 · pith_short_16: AJCQLNID5ZU46Y3V · pith_short_8: AJCQLNID

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/AJCQLNID5ZU46Y3VKKBYC6WH72 \
  | 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: 024505b503ee69cf63755283817ac7fe96014fa580c5285a98ed6cc8095fcc03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e11147eea2f8590ef52e4d6643589719179d0a9157d23972b9f0806a1f9ae5af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-21T06:30:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30a702b12b825382157f12036998d5f2c600822005b5b42da2287af64897f23e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2301.08906",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}