Pith Number

pith:FTFDLKO4

pith:2026:FTFDLKO4KFDUOK475WDIF5YM2K

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Beyond Storage: State as a Runtime Control Problem in Parallel and Distributed Systems

Chun Ho Ma, Hai Jin, Haoran Peng, Ruijie Qiu, Shifeng Liu, Shuhao Zhang, Xiaofei Liao, Yancan Mao, Yufeng Du

arxiv:2607.16836 v1 · 2026-07-18 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTFDLKO4KFDUOK475WDIF5YM2K}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-21T01:21:01.476264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cca35a9dc5147472b9fed8682f70cd28dcd3689d5f1c942b7316fe13440a848

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16836 · arxiv_version: 2607.16836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16836 · pith_short_12: FTFDLKO4KFDU · pith_short_16: FTFDLKO4KFDUOK47 · pith_short_8: FTFDLKO4

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/FTFDLKO4KFDUOK475WDIF5YM2K \
  | 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: 2cca35a9dc5147472b9fed8682f70cd28dcd3689d5f1c942b7316fe13440a848

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64fff82dbd7365fc83c084ca7b98e9e7e02982a72d9f24822b3210d27320a328",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-18T14:21:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5bc3b2b9bd554f58caa64995feb08876b7810f163850c05319ec38a1a296c0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16836",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}