Pith Number

pith:PY3HPYUT

pith:2016:PY3HPYUTVI7FKU2F4X4VGKQYLC

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Epistemic Protocols for Distributed Gossiping

Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool), Krzysztof R. Apt (Centrum Wiskunde Informatica), Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool)

arxiv:1606.07516 v1 · 2016-06-24 · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.LO · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PY3HPYUTVI7FKU2F4X4VGKQYLC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:57.381352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e3677e293aa3e555345e5f9532a18589bc8f7f114bb3d824ade4d9d60f535ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.07516 · arxiv_version: 1606.07516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.07516 · pith_short_12: PY3HPYUTVI7F · pith_short_16: PY3HPYUTVI7FKU2F · pith_short_8: PY3HPYUT

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/PY3HPYUTVI7FKU2F4X4VGKQYLC \
  | 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: 7e3677e293aa3e555345e5f9532a18589bc8f7f114bb3d824ade4d9d60f535ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36f15e917820d55795a8734c4d98ea83c84795ecde6838c9c530e18752dc8293",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LO",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-24T00:30:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "505144e074dcc662a901518638fa68ab23768f4b0b7cb00c6bc15f10117d151f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.07516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}