Pith Number

pith:CKVP5ZJV

pith:2010:CKVP5ZJVBX3AN2YS6SORCAM3X4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasirandom Rumor Spreading

Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Sauerwald, Tobias Friedrich

arxiv:1012.5351 v2 · 2010-12-24 · cs.DS · cs.DC · cs.DM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CKVP5ZJVBX3AN2YS6SORCAM3X4}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:06.429693Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12aafee5350df606eb12f49d11019bbf0f74bf02161d94db04d57ceffc90d35a

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.5351 · arxiv_version: 1012.5351v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.5351 · pith_short_12: CKVP5ZJVBX3A · pith_short_16: CKVP5ZJVBX3AN2YS · pith_short_8: CKVP5ZJV

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/CKVP5ZJVBX3AN2YS6SORCAM3X4 \
  | 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: 12aafee5350df606eb12f49d11019bbf0f74bf02161d94db04d57ceffc90d35a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44713e745ec77f158c7be53198c071e7942cabe73dddec5b134286f891357584",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-24T07:24:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d83b5660e8760cc5d30d7084c32c27fb4c2bc34a8e4922bc74a2bfd56f97202"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.5351",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}