Pith Number

pith:AZKZTSDG

pith:2012:AZKZTSDGBQXCBFPQRZAZMGJ3S5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-homogeneous distributed storage systems

Chau Yuen, Jing Li, Vo Tam Van

arxiv:1208.2078 v1 · 2012-08-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AZKZTSDGBQXCBFPQRZAZMGJ3S5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:00.290061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

065599c8660c2e2095f08e4196193b975c68266569263d014225c8ec1449a1af

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2078 · arxiv_version: 1208.2078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2078 · pith_short_12: AZKZTSDGBQXC · pith_short_16: AZKZTSDGBQXCBFPQ · pith_short_8: AZKZTSDG

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/AZKZTSDGBQXCBFPQRZAZMGJ3S5 \
  | 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: 065599c8660c2e2095f08e4196193b975c68266569263d014225c8ec1449a1af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14884b947088ab17a004e09b86c9584dbd77fe6a100bb8c7cbacf782611a2c6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-10T02:32:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aea859642fe2dad2bbdf11f4cb1baaa6f59e9e7c2aea13ee5fa8aebed7013d4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}