Pith Number

pith:AW3IJUDM

pith:1994:AW3IJUDMCNL7ORMK3H7FEN4CSS

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Proving time bounds for randomized distributed algorithms

Isaac Saias, Nancy Lynch, Roberto Segala

arxiv:math/9409221 v1 · 1994-09-19 · math.CO · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AW3IJUDMCNL7ORMK3H7FEN4CSS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:51.077081Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05b684d06c1357f7458ad9fe52378294b764a13eef8bebc40c0850813a271778

Aliases

arxiv: math/9409221 · arxiv_version: math/9409221v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9409221 · pith_short_12: AW3IJUDMCNL7 · pith_short_16: AW3IJUDMCNL7ORMK · pith_short_8: AW3IJUDM

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/AW3IJUDMCNL7ORMK3H7FEN4CSS \
  | 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: 05b684d06c1357f7458ad9fe52378294b764a13eef8bebc40c0850813a271778

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9f5766224596317584438824a8c773d760e8a375e410b9b91a5f26e9113d952",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-19T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be0ae9e21f8fc69d4448559a0b1cc931871805f1e9d4a81ff02e6d569bb610c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9409221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}