Pith Number

pith:IYPZ4YM3

pith:2003:IYPZ4YM3TVAR36OEFKA46XIS2U

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The Wake Up and Report Problem is Time-Equivalent to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem

Darin Goldstein, Nick Meyer

arxiv:cs/0310003 v1 · 2003-10-05 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IYPZ4YM3TVAR36OEFKA46XIS2U}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:24:37.351787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

461f9e619b9d411df9c42a81cf5d12d509c0471f4122f436e59f4bb2eef89126

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0310003 · arxiv_version: cs/0310003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0310003 · pith_short_12: IYPZ4YM3TVAR · pith_short_16: IYPZ4YM3TVAR36OE · pith_short_8: IYPZ4YM3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IYPZ4YM3TVAR36OEFKA46XIS2U \
  | 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: 461f9e619b9d411df9c42a81cf5d12d509c0471f4122f436e59f4bb2eef89126

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b06fc975c4dbec9d2ab339f288fe19931e8288db7c94d352fcff018919d78eb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-05T18:27:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cbb1d580261342ca49f678050ca81d9d35bcda4bd5de9975806e479e4446a9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0310003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}