Pith Number

pith:JZHTPEDS

pith:2013:JZHTPEDSMUKCTCZ4KOBNBBK5FT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gossip vs. Markov Chains, and Randomness-Efficient Rumor Spreading

He Sun, Zeyu Guo

arxiv:1311.2839 v1 · 2013-11-12 · cs.DC · cs.CC · cs.DS · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JZHTPEDSMUKCTCZ4KOBNBBK5FT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:13.653026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e4f3790726514298b3c5382d0855d2cd33d98d96907ec6e08fa02943200532f

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.2839 · arxiv_version: 1311.2839v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.2839 · pith_short_12: JZHTPEDSMUKC · pith_short_16: JZHTPEDSMUKCTCZ4 · pith_short_8: JZHTPEDS

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/JZHTPEDSMUKCTCZ4KOBNBBK5FT \
  | 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: 4e4f3790726514298b3c5382d0855d2cd33d98d96907ec6e08fa02943200532f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d45eff649f58aee8d0fdbfd907724b8f80f79c122bba25371512b83881e21a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-12T17:09:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f046da3965723130d16e71f417b6ba96297a791f335ed472cc911397aa2830fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.2839",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}