Pith Number

pith:PGIPMA6N

pith:2000:PGIPMA6N5WK43UI6JBQODMHH5U

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Design and Evaluation of Mechanisms for a Multicomputer Object Store

Lex Weaver

arxiv:cs/0004010 v1 · 2000-04-18 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PGIPMA6N5WK43UI6JBQODMHH5U}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:49.524784Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7990f603cded95cdd11e4860e1b0e7ed38434e8dafdf26faec02ea5f627570cf

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0004010 · arxiv_version: cs/0004010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0004010 · pith_short_12: PGIPMA6N5WK4 · pith_short_16: PGIPMA6N5WK43UI6 · pith_short_8: PGIPMA6N

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/PGIPMA6N5WK43UI6JBQODMHH5U \
  | 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: 7990f603cded95cdd11e4860e1b0e7ed38434e8dafdf26faec02ea5f627570cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1865bc672cf910ecce4e24ef86397fa41214a9c99b221d22456be2add634ccf4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2000-04-18T17:29:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb62e8395d875fbbdc85fd0c1035427a1272feab05a0b30c2ca580e3a8c651b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0004010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}