Pith Number

pith:DMZLEXM2

pith:2014:DMZLEXM27XNH457GG2BRFYSXFZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to Elect a Leader Faster than a Tournament

Adrian Vladu, Dan Alistarh, Rati Gelashvili

arxiv:1411.1001 v2 · 2014-11-04 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DMZLEXM27XNH457GG2BRFYSXFZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:05.130273Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b32b25d9afdda7e77e6368312e2572e4e304304488f637374328f96da25b1f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1001 · arxiv_version: 1411.1001v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1001 · pith_short_12: DMZLEXM27XNH · pith_short_16: DMZLEXM27XNH457G · pith_short_8: DMZLEXM2

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/DMZLEXM27XNH457GG2BRFYSXFZ \
  | 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: 1b32b25d9afdda7e77e6368312e2572e4e304304488f637374328f96da25b1f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf6be3d3ca511272782e58589afa9ca438501a87980845dd1a1ebabffb78ea19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-04T18:57:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc87d3d2fb2d36716815cd4889a91eae2b6c1a06b41bf7cd5c9f8eb427c6723d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}