Pith Number

pith:ICGZL7WW

pith:2018:ICGZL7WWRFPGISWJBMMYDQZ7OA

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Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous Communication Constraints: The Worst-Case Computation Load and Proof by Contradiction

Fan Li, Jinyuan Chen, Nishant Shakya

arxiv:1802.00413 v2 · 2018-02-01 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ICGZL7WWRFPGISWJBMMYDQZ7OA}

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:02.867408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

408d95fed6895e644ac90b1981c33f700aeb9cf053f14480097663652745f0e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00413 · arxiv_version: 1802.00413v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00413 · pith_short_12: ICGZL7WWRFPG · pith_short_16: ICGZL7WWRFPGISWJ · pith_short_8: ICGZL7WW

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/ICGZL7WWRFPGISWJBMMYDQZ7OA \
  | 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: 408d95fed6895e644ac90b1981c33f700aeb9cf053f14480097663652745f0e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffd54bfaa87f6e20b48722711eb2947bade3c70440a8036d12a8e3d2c8e00139",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-01T17:47:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ffe3d52308cb6842d4d52230fdfd058959fcdf9634c62287ef71e81de6db383f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}