Pith Number

pith:EKVFA2YG

pith:2012:EKVFA2YGRU724UZXFFT6623FZS

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Parameter-independent Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus

Lewis Tseng, Nitin H. Vaidya

arxiv:1208.4867 v1 · 2012-08-23 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EKVFA2YGRU724UZXFFT6623FZS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:52.356295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22aa506b068d3fae53372967ef6b65cc864718451f8404e8d3b36c6363296a06

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4867 · arxiv_version: 1208.4867v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4867 · pith_short_12: EKVFA2YGRU72 · pith_short_16: EKVFA2YGRU724UZX · pith_short_8: EKVFA2YG

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/EKVFA2YGRU724UZXFFT6623FZS \
  | 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: 22aa506b068d3fae53372967ef6b65cc864718451f8404e8d3b36c6363296a06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97dcd6d92775b341198189f404272d56a986de375b98f673866775814194947c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-23T21:44:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ee0128f367624197060e583b8fe8f98ce6ef92cefb3e06846160ea2abcd8807"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}