Pith Number

pith:G5K5XRST

pith:2017:G5K5XRST7FB6BR3LZCRINMLEIQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cheating by Duplication: Equilibrium Requires Global Knowledge

Moshe Sulamy, Shaked Rafaeli, Yehuda Afek

arxiv:1711.04728 v2 · 2017-11-13 · cs.DC · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5K5XRST7FB6BR3LZCRINMLEIQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:19:03.141256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3755dbc653f943e0c76bc8a286b16444179d724076b550a0e9f4d22f8ec790ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04728 · arxiv_version: 1711.04728v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04728 · pith_short_12: G5K5XRST7FB6 · pith_short_16: G5K5XRST7FB6BR3L · pith_short_8: G5K5XRST

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/G5K5XRST7FB6BR3LZCRINMLEIQ \
  | 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: 3755dbc653f943e0c76bc8a286b16444179d724076b550a0e9f4d22f8ec790ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "384134be3fdc7f17615e8c5072bb10f71f08aab1a2b6511aec0d1889d3c25cfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T17:55:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81209645574bc81ba893891e80aa73b1304e9db4adcb194f89361d411bc96eee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}