Pith Number

pith:MEN5QZNN

pith:2015:MEN5QZNNSMGMK4OLJ5MT22MWIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probabilistic Asynchronous Arbitrary Pattern Formation

2) ((1) NPA, (2) IUF), LINCS, LIP6, Quentin Bramas (1), S\'ebastien Tixeuil (1, UPMC

arxiv:1508.03714 v3 · 2015-08-15 · cs.DC · cs.MA · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEN5QZNNSMGMK4OLJ5MT22MWIK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:34:45.031475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

611bd865ad930cc571cb4f593d699642960d0dcb4fb25d74f7bcc2face4b7f5d

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03714 · arxiv_version: 1508.03714v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03714 · pith_short_12: MEN5QZNNSMGM · pith_short_16: MEN5QZNNSMGMK4OL · pith_short_8: MEN5QZNN

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/MEN5QZNNSMGMK4OLJ5MT22MWIK \
  | 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: 611bd865ad930cc571cb4f593d699642960d0dcb4fb25d74f7bcc2face4b7f5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53a00cd1e6125cf1124f29e63218d8bd179327255a9cb3a316fa5423584e4168",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-15T09:09:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80d262be571e76c18c60a7b91cb6c7c79d121f7d9a2ddd31b12b663179d2558b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03714",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}