Pith Number

pith:KV7KJL6W

pith:2019:KV7KJL6WV23JUUGORKP6JM3VAF

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On the Use of Randomness in Local Distributed Graph Algorithms

Fabian Kuhn, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1906.00482 v1 · 2019-06-02 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KV7KJL6WV23JUUGORKP6JM3VAF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:26.969357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

557ea4afd6aeb69a50ce8a9fe4b375014cb3072b44844c84915c525e3ca2721a

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.00482 · arxiv_version: 1906.00482v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.00482 · pith_short_12: KV7KJL6WV23J · pith_short_16: KV7KJL6WV23JUUGO · pith_short_8: KV7KJL6W

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/KV7KJL6WV23JUUGORKP6JM3VAF \
  | 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: 557ea4afd6aeb69a50ce8a9fe4b375014cb3072b44844c84915c525e3ca2721a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f63f4b8a85dca49c7d0e3db8077c1d1bfbca56b8db24bd3c70b44c5f80fe711",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-02T20:51:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0292505a5cb4be04b59dd89bedb51fd9c5fe511fea31de5975a23843dc87b5ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.00482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}