Pith Number

pith:EGXGJTL2

pith:2011:EGXGJTL2Z66CNKF5OVOENZSHU2

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The hardness of Median in the synchronized bit communication model

Karolina So{\l}tys

arxiv:1102.1208 v1 · 2011-02-06 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGXGJTL2Z66CNKF5OVOENZSHU2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:29:54.764081Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21ae64cd7acfbc26a8bd755c46e647a6a8df2b0a5d9cde41d7bf327973406b23

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1208 · arxiv_version: 1102.1208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1208 · pith_short_12: EGXGJTL2Z66C · pith_short_16: EGXGJTL2Z66CNKF5 · pith_short_8: EGXGJTL2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EGXGJTL2Z66CNKF5OVOENZSHU2 \
  | 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: 21ae64cd7acfbc26a8bd755c46e647a6a8df2b0a5d9cde41d7bf327973406b23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a408245f7f35216e722c1d5acb34355b9184f46fc947d422a61a1a357b2829c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-06T22:53:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cc7d14dd3ae79655319a2ef1ea52b301dc3ab7849921d28eefd6f0cd480b81c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}