Pith Number

pith:Q5ON36CB

pith:2017:Q5ON36CBL5EL7ALMPA2AQGPCIY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed algorithm for controlling scale-free polygonal formations

Bayu Jayawardhana, Hector Garcia de Marina, Ming Cao

arxiv:1703.07960 v1 · 2017-03-23 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q5ON36CBL5EL7ALMPA2AQGPCIY}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:48:04.290441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

875cddf8415f48bf816c78340819e2462a76d1b0acd3e0307a9065e491295205

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07960 · arxiv_version: 1703.07960v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07960 · pith_short_12: Q5ON36CBL5EL · pith_short_16: Q5ON36CBL5EL7ALM · pith_short_8: Q5ON36CB

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/Q5ON36CBL5EL7ALMPA2AQGPCIY \
  | 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: 875cddf8415f48bf816c78340819e2462a76d1b0acd3e0307a9065e491295205

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b07cab46c24204ea4bcfa699c1b0b4d528e090386e16e82ef1034c87afdca15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-23T08:10:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "744f8459c6c6fbf60e82d78e2935814fd1e8d7fdb8a81dd7716e36898b6f0f67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}