Pith Number

pith:KQCWY7OG

pith:2011:KQCWY7OGR4I2ZUNTK34PIK3XNM

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Causality, Knowledge and Coordination in Distributed Systems

Ido Ben-Zvi

arxiv:1112.4428 v1 · 2011-12-19 · cs.LO · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQCWY7OGR4I2ZUNTK34PIK3XNM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:06:06.468431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54056c7dc68f11acd1b356f8f42b776b105fab79193bfaedcb0a2de477afa6f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.4428 · arxiv_version: 1112.4428v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.4428 · pith_short_12: KQCWY7OGR4I2 · pith_short_16: KQCWY7OGR4I2ZUNT · pith_short_8: KQCWY7OG

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/KQCWY7OGR4I2ZUNTK34PIK3XNM \
  | 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: 54056c7dc68f11acd1b356f8f42b776b105fab79193bfaedcb0a2de477afa6f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf4ed14a56121b656424b55e35d09a123754d5f5e6cd2440c14852c0b393e9ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-19T18:27:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a94e530f0a8e4f4f01e62854f32ebe98ee360497636bc5c1aa3e8aa74ef147ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.4428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}