Pith Number

pith:CLO3I2UK

pith:2018:CLO3I2UKC3VHTY7ZIQPNEUS7OM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

To Centralize or Not to Centralize: A Tale of Swarm Coordination

Ariana Bruno, Brendon Jackson, Brian Ritchken, Christina Delimitrou, Drew Zagieboylo, Francois Mertil, Joo Yeon Chae, Justin Hu, Mark Zhao, Mateo Espinosa

arxiv:1805.01786 v1 · 2018-05-04 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CLO3I2UKC3VHTY7ZIQPNEUS7OM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:46.692623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12ddb46a8a16ea79e3f9441ed2525f733218bc11b747f6225add9c4f83d73634

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01786 · arxiv_version: 1805.01786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01786 · pith_short_12: CLO3I2UKC3VH · pith_short_16: CLO3I2UKC3VHTY7Z · pith_short_8: CLO3I2UK

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/CLO3I2UKC3VHTY7ZIQPNEUS7OM \
  | 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: 12ddb46a8a16ea79e3f9441ed2525f733218bc11b747f6225add9c4f83d73634

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "22224bd3a8616f56d5ef965dd28f61d7cfb39a5fcb4ae215c2645b6879b26a92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-04T13:50:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c93b9efa2a2289c52f0e07cee79aae8695db6dc1a25b93d5c17f90508532788b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}