Pith Number

pith:BYU3TJWT

pith:2021:BYU3TJWTKVJQWFMKIAPSE3YTNQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contention Resolution with Predictions

Alex Weaver, Calvin Newport, Nitin Vaidya, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:2105.12706 v1 · 2021-05-26 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYU3TJWTKVJQWFMKIAPSE3YTNQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T02:43:41.652927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e29b9a6d355530b158a401f226f136c2649a18316005acd4d02e0477491a976

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.12706 · arxiv_version: 2105.12706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.12706 · pith_short_12: BYU3TJWTKVJQ · pith_short_16: BYU3TJWTKVJQWFMK · pith_short_8: BYU3TJWT

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/BYU3TJWTKVJQWFMKIAPSE3YTNQ \
  | 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: 0e29b9a6d355530b158a401f226f136c2649a18316005acd4d02e0477491a976

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc28c6bf5d37b727186fd2417fdfc7334f4de4a5379f3e335991219ed40513fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-26T17:39:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a763357ea3507e4f72a50ca632ae1346a2367adf5f6a6872fb6db0a6dca186ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2105.12706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}