Pith Number

pith:NKKDH7CQ

pith:2017:NKKDH7CQXNTZPFF5FCABHJ3ZOJ

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An Algorithmic Approach to the Asynchronous Computability Theorem

Eli Gafni, Maurice Herlihy, Vikram Saraph

arxiv:1703.08525 v1 · 2017-03-24 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKKDH7CQXNTZPFF5FCABHJ3ZOJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:59.749236Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a9433fc50bb679794bd288013a77972477d5730f903e1d524163277a3c9ff75

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.08525 · arxiv_version: 1703.08525v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.08525 · pith_short_12: NKKDH7CQXNTZ · pith_short_16: NKKDH7CQXNTZPFF5 · pith_short_8: NKKDH7CQ

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/NKKDH7CQXNTZPFF5FCABHJ3ZOJ \
  | 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: 6a9433fc50bb679794bd288013a77972477d5730f903e1d524163277a3c9ff75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8bd6cafd702e0a2378ed0e93f1e012f315d2685be7e3090a92a77af39e7d277",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-24T17:29:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "202de4aa0153ba0f5dd73aaa11d0a67a90ea0ec0f6d5c41d0d331904dcdc9f25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.08525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}