Pith Number

pith:JNSMJD76

pith:2017:JNSMJD765P7G5BGXB3S3H43NWO

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Use of Information, Memory and Randomization in Asynchronous Gathering

Andrzej Pelc

arxiv:1709.05869 v1 · 2017-09-18 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNSMJD765P7G5BGXB3S3H43NWO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:59.066710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b64c48ffeebfe6e84d70ee5b3f36db3b9204f775b84a4443c15c2dd37ab43bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05869 · arxiv_version: 1709.05869v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05869 · pith_short_12: JNSMJD765P7G · pith_short_16: JNSMJD765P7G5BGX · pith_short_8: JNSMJD76

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/JNSMJD765P7G5BGXB3S3H43NWO \
  | 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: 4b64c48ffeebfe6e84d70ee5b3f36db3b9204f775b84a4443c15c2dd37ab43bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc9958574c1d6135164fd6d6f3a96efdda3b1fee8c3d56a7fcbb2f83d0641f8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-18T11:29:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce348f756222f5cf7a53597067fbcf03f6e5b157a25620d52e66fe5dae2b85a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}