Pith Number

pith:DGYWOMEF

pith:2017:DGYWOMEFS5NA2CKIWCDZ37G2ZT

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Population protocols for leader election and exact majority with O(log^2 n) states and O(log^2 n) convergence time

Andreas Bilke, Colin Cooper, Robert Elsaesser, Tomasz Radzik

arxiv:1705.01146 v1 · 2017-05-02 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DGYWOMEFS5NA2CKIWCDZ37G2ZT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:05.806176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19b1673085975a0d0948b0879dfcdacce4c487d43f668e059f974c79e95452e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01146 · arxiv_version: 1705.01146v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01146 · pith_short_12: DGYWOMEFS5NA · pith_short_16: DGYWOMEFS5NA2CKI · pith_short_8: DGYWOMEF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DGYWOMEFS5NA2CKIWCDZ37G2ZT \
  | 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: 19b1673085975a0d0948b0879dfcdacce4c487d43f668e059f974c79e95452e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95fb90398812002d82678f6ff08097bfec1d7585c28339c1c5ad1073cdc9692e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-02T19:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4c36d3be810355ee9cd24579380b106edc247a7d74fd255ceb6230a537fcac7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}