Pith Number

pith:PUPDAHOP

pith:2018:PUPDAHOP4PKW75IXKPOZI4RYNH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Selecting a Leader in a Network of Finite State Machines

Noa Kolikant, Yehuda Afek, Yuval Emek

arxiv:1805.05660 v2 · 2018-05-15 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PUPDAHOP4PKW75IXKPOZI4RYNH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:52.254832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d1e301dcfe3d56ff51753dd94723869e9f4f4e0ccd418a8dc2e61f49979d44c

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.05660 · arxiv_version: 1805.05660v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.05660 · pith_short_12: PUPDAHOP4PKW · pith_short_16: PUPDAHOP4PKW75IX · pith_short_8: PUPDAHOP

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/PUPDAHOP4PKW75IXKPOZI4RYNH \
  | 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: 7d1e301dcfe3d56ff51753dd94723869e9f4f4e0ccd418a8dc2e61f49979d44c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e76d83d85b89826413444506f42ec0d3f7b7b28c8069a4d78aecff4b921c8b88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-15T09:28:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dd4b2b982f71cd56d9d387aa14116d37a6f0d817aee96aec3ee7c88ad7c7bde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.05660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}