Pith Number

pith:QXHJVPJD

pith:2026:QXHJVPJDBLLXDKT3ADEYEF7CWH

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A Kinetic Theory of Encounter-Based Information Propagation in Multi-Robot Systems

Alkesh K. Srivastava, Philip Dames

arxiv:2606.02296 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.RO

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\pithnumber{QXHJVPJDBLLXDKT3ADEYEF7CWH}

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First computed	2026-06-02T03:04:55.270590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85ce9abd230ad771aa7b00c98217e2b1f5f21766a14fcc96343b9c4006e8659c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02296 · arxiv_version: 2606.02296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02296 · pith_short_12: QXHJVPJDBLLX · pith_short_16: QXHJVPJDBLLXDKT3 · pith_short_8: QXHJVPJD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QXHJVPJDBLLXDKT3ADEYEF7CWH \
  | 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: 85ce9abd230ad771aa7b00c98217e2b1f5f21766a14fcc96343b9c4006e8659c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c86454689f40c77fc72de48b1031f08a2b25dbc12ebac28f6265b86c8b944b8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T14:20:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f59465c246da01510e01cde7b6e4ff83343264b3744d0581cb6978e34abcfdc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}