Pith Number

pith:NQ4EUPHW

pith:2017:NQ4EUPHWBDNQYBXBRLCAXI23JA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Verifying Strong Eventual Consistency in Distributed Systems

Alastair R. Beresford, Dominic P. Mulligan, Martin Kleppmann, Victor B. F. Gomes

arxiv:1707.01747 v3 · 2017-07-06 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQ4EUPHWBDNQYBXBRLCAXI23JA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:28.766509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c384a3cf608db0c06e18ac40ba35b4821a864243d2dce69c97f907c8d73a96d

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.01747 · arxiv_version: 1707.01747v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.01747 · pith_short_12: NQ4EUPHWBDNQ · pith_short_16: NQ4EUPHWBDNQYBXB · pith_short_8: NQ4EUPHW

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/NQ4EUPHWBDNQYBXBRLCAXI23JA \
  | 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: 6c384a3cf608db0c06e18ac40ba35b4821a864243d2dce69c97f907c8d73a96d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e02b1eb2bd56cf36e3bb3f675318a123694ec2e8c295f8765c396498e17de8ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-06T12:35:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "051b501109afde4bf81100bb77604bbd1b2632ed2cbb625a7d9c2b227fb0f0fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.01747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}