Pith Number

pith:GOWB52ZS

pith:2019:GOWB52ZSG2KUUNP4ISEVLS4MNA

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Phoenix: An Epidemic Approach to Time Reconstruction

Alex Szalay, Andreas Terzis, Douglas Carlson, Jayant Gupchup, R\u{a}zvan Mus\u{a}loiu-E.

arxiv:1902.00808 v1 · 2019-02-02 · cs.NI · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GOWB52ZSG2KUUNP4ISEVLS4MNA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:54:33.724691Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33ac1eeb3236954a35fc448955cb8c6823aaf9ee11e1496362661ea42d3db0b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.00808 · arxiv_version: 1902.00808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.00808 · pith_short_12: GOWB52ZSG2KU · pith_short_16: GOWB52ZSG2KUUNP4 · pith_short_8: GOWB52ZS

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/GOWB52ZSG2KUUNP4ISEVLS4MNA \
  | 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: 33ac1eeb3236954a35fc448955cb8c6823aaf9ee11e1496362661ea42d3db0b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cd3897f298b433428c3ec8aa51652e7b98c5dd7f06d7c324249456f8284b07c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-02T23:15:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8ff4fb16d147c728f9b6f415e98cb3aaefbc73812941da8f6d8d253a641632d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.00808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}