Pith Number

pith:QRSLWAFV

pith:2016:QRSLWAFVXT43JAVQG6ZKVVRR2Z

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A Fundamental Tradeoff between Computation and Communication in Distributed Computing

A. Salman Avestimehr, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Qian Yu, Songze Li

arxiv:1604.07086 v2 · 2016-04-24 · cs.IT · cs.DC · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QRSLWAFVXT43JAVQG6ZKVVRR2Z}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:31.744394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8464bb00b5bcf9b482b037b2aad631d64d90d0cc135275e7c7119b884d9c7687

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.07086 · arxiv_version: 1604.07086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.07086 · pith_short_12: QRSLWAFVXT43 · pith_short_16: QRSLWAFVXT43JAVQ · pith_short_8: QRSLWAFV

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/QRSLWAFVXT43JAVQG6ZKVVRR2Z \
  | 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: 8464bb00b5bcf9b482b037b2aad631d64d90d0cc135275e7c7119b884d9c7687

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d03d207b8551d21df04cae898bfe381cbca624d5e28faac109c99c0b132f1d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-24T22:10:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "251cc6ab56fbf7ef22f5563a1302751bb70f9cd7470e70dfa0c29cccec8d5950"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.07086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}