Pith Number

pith:QNLR44VC

pith:2015:QNLR44VCZMU55OJGPL7343PVEQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Eventual Wait-Free Synchronization

Tong Che

arxiv:1512.08258 v1 · 2015-12-27 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QNLR44VCZMU55OJGPL7343PVEQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:23:42.780328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83571e72a2cb29deb9267affbe6df5241c6e6c16a0817088db4370e29e6df37f

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.08258 · arxiv_version: 1512.08258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.08258 · pith_short_12: QNLR44VCZMU5 · pith_short_16: QNLR44VCZMU55OJG · pith_short_8: QNLR44VC

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/QNLR44VCZMU55OJGPL7343PVEQ \
  | 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: 83571e72a2cb29deb9267affbe6df5241c6e6c16a0817088db4370e29e6df37f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a32fe24253c38674afba2282730d8ec33de71370c4d90f5adf8c8999236b8064",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-27T18:28:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b6ffc7df594fdd3d85dfd40f081c7a3dacd7527e60ea2249c9e9e41773c6aef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.08258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}