Pith Number

pith:GVV3GOOH

pith:2015:GVV3GOOHUDZMQI6PBLACRK3WPU

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Compressing Communication in Distributed Protocols

Ilan Komargodski, Yael Tauman Kalai

arxiv:1506.00290 v3 · 2015-05-31 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GVV3GOOHUDZMQI6PBLACRK3WPU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:14.982342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

356bb339c7a0f2c823cf0ac028ab767d2d547e0a964de8a338b5ba96218641fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.00290 · arxiv_version: 1506.00290v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.00290 · pith_short_12: GVV3GOOHUDZM · pith_short_16: GVV3GOOHUDZMQI6P · pith_short_8: GVV3GOOH

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/GVV3GOOHUDZMQI6PBLACRK3WPU \
  | 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: 356bb339c7a0f2c823cf0ac028ab767d2d547e0a964de8a338b5ba96218641fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "602d31cd51a66517958dc6e891891098f688bfeebcd0223362caa5bdd3c7052d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-31T21:00:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f882df1dde1e5c7c7a709e65adc79b844929e02e65c97dcf559c9d76a1288285"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.00290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}