Pith Number

pith:KEDEBMYS

pith:2016:KEDEBMYSG2DGW72PANXROXW6CF

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Reasoning about identifier spaces: How to make Chord correct

Pamela Zave

arxiv:1610.01140 v2 · 2016-10-04 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KEDEBMYSG2DGW72PANXROXW6CF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:39:37.363632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

510640b31236866b7f4f036f175ede115cd2439420b3e6ba824c4638b7b16aa9

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.01140 · arxiv_version: 1610.01140v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.01140 · pith_short_12: KEDEBMYSG2DG · pith_short_16: KEDEBMYSG2DGW72P · pith_short_8: KEDEBMYS

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/KEDEBMYSG2DGW72PANXROXW6CF \
  | 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: 510640b31236866b7f4f036f175ede115cd2439420b3e6ba824c4638b7b16aa9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f7d006de6e97c8a4049dfc2e6c9043a43f629e9beaf2ac6d1e93cffb360bdf9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-04T19:42:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d14514b620f57a00f0dede5ed2496c39c277811530d810108833baab07439aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.01140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}