Pith Number

pith:JWUGUBB5

pith:2020:JWUGUBB5XLETCF4COVSFCXWGJY

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Lightweight Inter-transaction Caching with Precise Clocks and Dynamic Self-invalidation

Alvin R. Lebeck, Jeffrey S. Chase, Johannes Gehrke, Pulkit A. Misra, Srihari Radhakrishnan

arxiv:2003.04150 v1 · 2020-03-09 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWUGUBB5XLETCF4COVSFCXWGJY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T00:46:40.214034Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4da86a043dbac93117827564515ec64e09d114a11502ffa21394a5b40a97ef21

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.04150 · arxiv_version: 2003.04150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.04150 · pith_short_12: JWUGUBB5XLET · pith_short_16: JWUGUBB5XLETCF4C · pith_short_8: JWUGUBB5

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/JWUGUBB5XLETCF4COVSFCXWGJY \
  | 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: 4da86a043dbac93117827564515ec64e09d114a11502ffa21394a5b40a97ef21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00ae9839b3286188692bebdf1ec0b51fa735c3011bf284550f58827d3a88bae9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-09T13:50:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60cb25ec6b2ba3e50ce0e4359daf55d3033958f511905ea7a21d804d2ea3b4c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.04150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}