Pith Number

pith:I3L6DUST

pith:2017:I3L6DUSTCEN4MLQEPZZYKNJRF3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Parallel Search with no Coordination

Amos Korman (IRIF, GANG), Yoav Rodeh

arxiv:1705.05704 v1 · 2017-05-16 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I3L6DUSTCEN4MLQEPZZYKNJRF3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:20.386918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46d7e1d253111bc62e047e738535312eccedc8cd38fe68055edb0a9b58a9c615

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05704 · arxiv_version: 1705.05704v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05704 · pith_short_12: I3L6DUSTCEN4 · pith_short_16: I3L6DUSTCEN4MLQE · pith_short_8: I3L6DUST

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/I3L6DUSTCEN4MLQEPZZYKNJRF3 \
  | 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: 46d7e1d253111bc62e047e738535312eccedc8cd38fe68055edb0a9b58a9c615

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fbcce262619c95cdd8f016333e916abe5b5986f36aede787d6f86b5661b38ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-16T13:48:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c84c973140386a234383cbce109c7d4dc4674f23aa7413018d6bfbccd7d85366"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05704",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}