Pith Number

pith:QLP73ZCE

pith:2020:QLP73ZCEYXCSUBMY7XGWQ4ZEWG

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Byzantine Agreement, Broadcast and State Machine Replication with Near-optimal Good-case Latency

Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, Ling Ren, Zhuolun Xiang

arxiv:2003.13155 v4 · 2020-03-29 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLP73ZCEYXCSUBMY7XGWQ4ZEWG}

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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	2026-07-05T02:00:44.419379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82dffde444c5c52a0598fdcd687324b1b4d0013c62e798d7cd05eb354e920d82

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.13155 · arxiv_version: 2003.13155v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.13155 · pith_short_12: QLP73ZCEYXCS · pith_short_16: QLP73ZCEYXCSUBMY · pith_short_8: QLP73ZCE

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/QLP73ZCEYXCSUBMY7XGWQ4ZEWG \
  | 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: 82dffde444c5c52a0598fdcd687324b1b4d0013c62e798d7cd05eb354e920d82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d9807b089c3727975fcb4f5551199e92c24ccff8d4e664903d744306fd3ae3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-29T22:53:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53cc44e755e20f8b1bac43f6c24a05a69a334ce090a8b22919e1bbdd707e952f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.13155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}