Pith Number

pith:HZ3LCORB

pith:2017:HZ3LCORB4H7ARVP3J3V7EKM2N4

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Simulating a Shared Register in a System that Never Stops Changing

Faith Ellen, Hagit Attiya, Hyun Chul Chung, Jennifer L. Welch, Saptaparni Kumar

arxiv:1708.03274 v1 · 2017-08-10 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HZ3LCORB4H7ARVP3J3V7EKM2N4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:14.252321Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e76b13a21e1fe08d5fb4eebf2299a6f03967ad393582ebd11c3ae36eb03e02f

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03274 · arxiv_version: 1708.03274v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03274 · pith_short_12: HZ3LCORB4H7A · pith_short_16: HZ3LCORB4H7ARVP3 · pith_short_8: HZ3LCORB

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/HZ3LCORB4H7ARVP3J3V7EKM2N4 \
  | 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: 3e76b13a21e1fe08d5fb4eebf2299a6f03967ad393582ebd11c3ae36eb03e02f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad6e75790d886289e6b0b61a21682193584169b1993e1727c3b117bc3dc702e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T15:50:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c78494b6353d827c90679e925bfc2b21333b3d9d351533f29ddb0940ebf78699"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03274",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}