Pith Number

pith:OBHWOTER

pith:2015:OBHWOTER356BNW566BTUP3DGGO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leader Election and Shape Formation with Self-Organizing Programmable Matter

Andr\'ea W. Richa, Christian Scheideler, Joshua J. Daymude, Rida Bazzi, Robert Gmyr, Thim Strothmann, Zahra Derakhshandeh

arxiv:1503.07991 v2 · 2015-03-27 · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OBHWOTER356BNW566BTUP3DGGO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:00.111086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

704f674c91df7c16dbbef06747ec6633a2c816edf35cdafaabb79785fefbba21

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.07991 · arxiv_version: 1503.07991v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07991 · pith_short_12: OBHWOTER356B · pith_short_16: OBHWOTER356BNW56 · pith_short_8: OBHWOTER

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/OBHWOTER356BNW566BTUP3DGGO \
  | 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: 704f674c91df7c16dbbef06747ec6633a2c816edf35cdafaabb79785fefbba21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6233ebb9108c6878e9daba91808f0f4508c283af0be138e6dc66a5d2b725f501",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-27T08:57:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2f24af34d1089d80a6d2d134652318e77684d8662a02ccfa441938ac82dde0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.07991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}