Pith Number

pith:FYX3CATS

pith:2017:FYX3CATSGWNAW6SXTGJEB7YIQS

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Improved Distributed Algorithms for Exact Shortest Paths

Jason Li, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1712.09121 v4 · 2017-12-25 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FYX3CATSGWNAW6SXTGJEB7YIQS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:41.063255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e2fb10272359a0b7a57999240ff08848c1a93f7ac0a312a481bfa5744697342

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09121 · arxiv_version: 1712.09121v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09121 · pith_short_12: FYX3CATSGWNA · pith_short_16: FYX3CATSGWNAW6SX · pith_short_8: FYX3CATS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FYX3CATSGWNAW6SXTGJEB7YIQS \
  | 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: 2e2fb10272359a0b7a57999240ff08848c1a93f7ac0a312a481bfa5744697342

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e862ff0bc97cd2f6b837fcf919d0556b96b2ead4875951c218e37073d9c742f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-25T19:57:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa7d79ffea6f63054a84ffe5b25e168743184c2be02dde3acf92c7440997728c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}