Pith Number

pith:HMNGWS56

pith:2020:HMNGWS564RNL375SREOITOOQBJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems

James Aspnes

arxiv:2001.04235 v6 · 2020-01-10 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HMNGWS564RNL375SREOITOOQBJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:04:02.844912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b1a6b4bbee45abdffb2891c89b9d00a6c101422ee32da6d35fea98c25b600a0

Aliases

arxiv: 2001.04235 · arxiv_version: 2001.04235v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.04235 · pith_short_12: HMNGWS564RNL · pith_short_16: HMNGWS564RNL375S · pith_short_8: HMNGWS56

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/HMNGWS564RNL375SREOITOOQBJ \
  | 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: 3b1a6b4bbee45abdffb2891c89b9d00a6c101422ee32da6d35fea98c25b600a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d21faeeef15bcc2bfcf71429abc30d1b380d407ab4b8f149b3cf66ad9d879d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-10T18:51:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59839d1ecf07739beabbec12ac3c63faafe61c2837b5eb0cf1d8e75e4b110665"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.04235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}