Pith Number

pith:RSXHJAJW

pith:2018:RSXHJAJWUIOUFRJYZ7UE5YGD4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Technical Report: Optimistic Execution in Key-Value Store

Aleksey Charapko, Duong Nguyen, Murat Demirbas, Sandeep Kulkarni

arxiv:1805.11453 v3 · 2018-05-25 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RSXHJAJWUIOUFRJYZ7UE5YGD4Q}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:31.595415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cae748136a21d42c538cfe84ee0c3e43c32401f5935d7170cb7fb420ea80b29

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11453 · arxiv_version: 1805.11453v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11453 · pith_short_12: RSXHJAJWUIOU · pith_short_16: RSXHJAJWUIOUFRJY · pith_short_8: RSXHJAJW

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/RSXHJAJWUIOUFRJYZ7UE5YGD4Q \
  | 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: 8cae748136a21d42c538cfe84ee0c3e43c32401f5935d7170cb7fb420ea80b29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "653fc093d119399f82796f3153ed8d801aecc137d962be399251e62abefba88c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-25T23:19:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17c0f0b4edb8115ed5371c3864acdcb62c27efad15389747d112ed7fc26fa6f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}