Pith Number

pith:BSFOVUNB

pith:2026:BSFOVUNBKPRPVOX7ZSJRJR3TTF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Carnot Bound: Limits and Possibilities for Bandwidth-Efficient Consensus

Andrew Lewis-Pye, Patrick O'Grady

arxiv:2603.11797 v2 · 2026-03-12 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSFOVUNBKPRPVOX7ZSJRJR3TTF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-02T02:04:15.963942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c8aead1a153e2fabaffcc9314c773995cc80477b73c3594b1220d59adfb0db3

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.11797 · arxiv_version: 2603.11797v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.11797 · pith_short_12: BSFOVUNBKPRP · pith_short_16: BSFOVUNBKPRPVOX7 · pith_short_8: BSFOVUNB

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/BSFOVUNBKPRPVOX7ZSJRJR3TTF \
  | 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: 0c8aead1a153e2fabaffcc9314c773995cc80477b73c3594b1220d59adfb0db3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5450e496c4a9062bcb8483e583f9cd07d9ccc904f48008cb7556292eef8150b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-12T10:59:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddab6f7e5a81c12714af45b791bd422fdb0fd0009f58848dd5ef5b7765d991d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.11797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}