Pith Number

pith:IYXFGQ46

pith:2017:IYXFGQ46OWCRNRUVLELQSMUOSB

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On Using Time Without Clocks via Zigzag Causality

Asa Dan, Rajit Manohar, Yoram Moses

arxiv:1705.08627 v1 · 2017-05-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IYXFGQ46OWCRNRUVLELQSMUOSB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:44.731566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

462e53439e758516c695591709328e9050496a73a7232f0a89b8d4de55d19fb7

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08627 · arxiv_version: 1705.08627v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08627 · pith_short_12: IYXFGQ46OWCR · pith_short_16: IYXFGQ46OWCRNRUV · pith_short_8: IYXFGQ46

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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/IYXFGQ46OWCRNRUVLELQSMUOSB \
  | 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: 462e53439e758516c695591709328e9050496a73a7232f0a89b8d4de55d19fb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63eb6f76a2af663fdff360300e5e9b38ce37977450eb9dadc08c32d700596d82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-24T06:42:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cb83116c80dee6bb9e869b02e53e05a21422db8ff690773675525c5fe77c8d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}