Pith Number

pith:MGYRLYBZ

pith:2004:MGYRLYBZGB54UOEPIJ5TRXWCFK

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ReCord: A Distributed Hash Table with Recursive Structure

Jianyang Zeng, Wen-Jing Hsu

arxiv:cs/0410074 v2 · 2004-10-29 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MGYRLYBZGB54UOEPIJ5TRXWCFK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:49.203564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61b115e039307bca388f427b38dec22aabe8d21f9fab2de6cf7fce19b6a18681

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0410074 · arxiv_version: cs/0410074v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0410074 · pith_short_12: MGYRLYBZGB54 · pith_short_16: MGYRLYBZGB54UOEP · pith_short_8: MGYRLYBZ

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/MGYRLYBZGB54UOEPIJ5TRXWCFK \
  | 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: 61b115e039307bca388f427b38dec22aabe8d21f9fab2de6cf7fce19b6a18681

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2441e5ad7b73b05beb431f033f8d8d6f2432c31492e8ad2e1e9aa067015ec951",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-29T02:56:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa15a1f25d7eafc550970ced508f330601ffacf669ec39d951decfbd1ebcd4fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0410074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}