Pith Number

pith:NIL2ZJ5B

pith:2025:NIL2ZJ5BEN6FSE3J5SR3RTYMNG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Byzantine Agreement with Predictions

Faith Ellen, Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar, Naama Ben-David, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:2505.01793 v1 · 2025-05-03 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIL2ZJ5BEN6FSE3J5SR3RTYMNG}

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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	2026-07-05T10:58:04.234737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a17aca7a1237c591369eca3b8cf0c699b2c60210bcc73c4e55ab3d6ab54a648

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.01793 · arxiv_version: 2505.01793v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.01793 · pith_short_12: NIL2ZJ5BEN6F · pith_short_16: NIL2ZJ5BEN6FSE3J · pith_short_8: NIL2ZJ5B

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/NIL2ZJ5BEN6FSE3J5SR3RTYMNG \
  | 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: 6a17aca7a1237c591369eca3b8cf0c699b2c60210bcc73c4e55ab3d6ab54a648

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e296270c9420fe9cdf7630c7e2d8153640d80840e8490f001630548f20726edc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-03T11:41:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d4c344b3b601713bf65aa360f70705fe418bd8c24a113b32ea6e088dffcbdf2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.01793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}