Pith Number

pith:BMHKRB64

pith:2017:BMHKRB64IO4WNN2O7IASG7NXOC

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Ensuring Liveness Properties of Distributed Systems (A Research Agenda)

Rob van Glabbeek

arxiv:1711.04240 v1 · 2017-11-12 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMHKRB64IO4WNN2O7IASG7NXOC}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:39.677262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b0ea887dc43b966b74efa01237db770806a3b0f75f91cb54ef1290e9798e08f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04240 · arxiv_version: 1711.04240v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04240 · pith_short_12: BMHKRB64IO4W · pith_short_16: BMHKRB64IO4WNN2O · pith_short_8: BMHKRB64

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BMHKRB64IO4WNN2O7IASG7NXOC \
  | 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: 0b0ea887dc43b966b74efa01237db770806a3b0f75f91cb54ef1290e9798e08f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f38efbbccd7f4a67f10a0043a15d16706fde22e894346d95036863b28ce2ed08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-12T05:37:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "300dba6f2ea757ff4e58c9efd0066f6b7af570072c54a07b725930b53d091a58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}