Pith Number

pith:JYQ4UUD7

pith:2017:JYQ4UUD7POB3YIG6VB6M7H5J2H

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Ignore or Comply? On Breaking Symmetry in Consensus

Andrea Clementi, Emanuele Natale, Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, Peter Kling, Petra Berenbrink, Robert Els\"asser

arxiv:1702.04921 v1 · 2017-02-16 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JYQ4UUD7POB3YIG6VB6M7H5J2H}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:36.762181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e21ca507f7b83bc20dea87ccf9fa9d1e50935097febc0ec4b874bec5820c5c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.04921 · arxiv_version: 1702.04921v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.04921 · pith_short_12: JYQ4UUD7POB3 · pith_short_16: JYQ4UUD7POB3YIG6 · pith_short_8: JYQ4UUD7

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/JYQ4UUD7POB3YIG6VB6M7H5J2H \
  | 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: 4e21ca507f7b83bc20dea87ccf9fa9d1e50935097febc0ec4b874bec5820c5c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c753edf51b9d147052a7f0a612246db4fb54f6491f5edec97fea139444dad43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-16T11:08:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ef5c3a29db0ca00b6f22c5b24cf194ff47900321c493f7990cdeac5d0376ae4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.04921",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}