Pith Number

pith:FUQ5J4Z6

pith:2010:FUQ5J4Z6UQI7X7FPH4AMMCE56V

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Quasi-Random Rumor Spreading: Reducing Randomness Can Be Costly

Benjamin Doerr, Mahmoud Fouz

arxiv:1008.0501 v1 · 2010-08-03 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FUQ5J4Z6UQI7X7FPH4AMMCE56V}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:42:42.879397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d21d4f33ea411fbfcaf3f00c6089df57753d2f0fa7176c48d0833cc6e35b794

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.0501 · arxiv_version: 1008.0501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.0501 · pith_short_12: FUQ5J4Z6UQI7 · pith_short_16: FUQ5J4Z6UQI7X7FP · pith_short_8: FUQ5J4Z6

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/FUQ5J4Z6UQI7X7FPH4AMMCE56V \
  | 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: 2d21d4f33ea411fbfcaf3f00c6089df57753d2f0fa7176c48d0833cc6e35b794

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f07e68cf349af333a6085eb8c8da0a3af141852399c2892815fa1c3806d362c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-03T09:59:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19e39cd0a914d24a7a2c34d30e5ca948239088277db782954c3e10c4a4939b41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.0501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}