Pith Number

pith:LNRTETMK

pith:2017:LNRTETMKNOWPPF3NKQMS2SD4M6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improved Leader Election for Self-Organizing Programmable Matter

Andrea W. Richa, Christian Scheideler, Joshua J. Daymude, Robert Gmyr, Thim Strothmann

arxiv:1701.03616 v3 · 2017-01-13 · cs.ET · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNRTETMKNOWPPF3NKQMS2SD4M6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:36.110871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b63324d8a6bacf7976d54192d487c67a0680a5e83dbbd2b7a69791155ae3488

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03616 · arxiv_version: 1701.03616v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03616 · pith_short_12: LNRTETMKNOWP · pith_short_16: LNRTETMKNOWPPF3N · pith_short_8: LNRTETMK

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/LNRTETMKNOWPPF3NKQMS2SD4M6 \
  | 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: 5b63324d8a6bacf7976d54192d487c67a0680a5e83dbbd2b7a69791155ae3488

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0d71a8303573491c75dc4b27d7469accb963559d33296da82cdb5cc7af38a79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-13T10:27:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5356d11c8f19a9380bfca21d1c4e255c767006c4596da644d1c1d313b10c7e98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}