Pith Number

pith:EPE43FTG

pith:2015:EPE43FTGDVOY6LEOQTVEQJGPUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stable Leader Election in Population Protocols Requires Linear Time

David Doty, David Soloveichik

arxiv:1502.04246 v4 · 2015-02-14 · cs.DC · cs.CC · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EPE43FTGDVOY6LEOQTVEQJGPUI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:26.687675Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23c9cd96661d5d8f2c8e84ea4824cfa22bba8ee957bdee7f11c1d4cfeff23da5

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.04246 · arxiv_version: 1502.04246v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.04246 · pith_short_12: EPE43FTGDVOY · pith_short_16: EPE43FTGDVOY6LEO · pith_short_8: EPE43FTG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EPE43FTGDVOY6LEOQTVEQJGPUI \
  | 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: 23c9cd96661d5d8f2c8e84ea4824cfa22bba8ee957bdee7f11c1d4cfeff23da5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "178d62535b9a610af2325162059fdd4dcfb800fc80fe444975056c563c5d112d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "q-bio.MN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-14T21:17:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0713b0bb7e69a3095988eb5c59ce50a122727793901703430966b06c931910ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.04246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}