Pith Number

pith:HT3VGMFY

pith:2017:HT3VGMFYP7HB6M2ORNLBYR4R2I

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A Layered Architecture for Erasure-Coded Consistent Distributed Storage

Kishori M. Konwar, Muriel Medard, Nancy Lynch, N. Prakash

arxiv:1703.01286 v2 · 2017-03-03 · cs.DC · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HT3VGMFYP7HB6M2ORNLBYR4R2I}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:20.610848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3cf75330b87fce1f334e8b561c4791d2391ae3deb7f323165a2fce99a96082cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01286 · arxiv_version: 1703.01286v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01286 · pith_short_12: HT3VGMFYP7HB · pith_short_16: HT3VGMFYP7HB6M2O · pith_short_8: HT3VGMFY

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/HT3VGMFYP7HB6M2ORNLBYR4R2I \
  | 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: 3cf75330b87fce1f334e8b561c4791d2391ae3deb7f323165a2fce99a96082cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79c150422a1cff9635554e4c07daeedabf601f3a5ff8af7150469765d723c4bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-03T18:52:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43f960a54bf7766d35b7d230ee39f6449da11ad89b3a8829e16c53d327abf527"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.01286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}