Pith Number

pith:SDSLTV5A

pith:2011:SDSLTV5ATRBFNKACE6IMBFQBPY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linearizable Implementations Do Not Suffice for Randomized Distributed Computation

Lisa Higham, Philipp Woelfel, Wojciech Golab

arxiv:1103.4690 v2 · 2011-03-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SDSLTV5ATRBFNKACE6IMBFQBPY}

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:44.561203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90e4b9d7a09c4256a8022790c096017e134c412f5a24587169d22096207c4354

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.4690 · arxiv_version: 1103.4690v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.4690 · pith_short_12: SDSLTV5ATRBF · pith_short_16: SDSLTV5ATRBFNKAC · pith_short_8: SDSLTV5A

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/SDSLTV5ATRBFNKACE6IMBFQBPY \
  | 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: 90e4b9d7a09c4256a8022790c096017e134c412f5a24587169d22096207c4354

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccd65475bf2bba599efacf7241a693da2db79a0d29f32615f8d8b053dc492824",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-24T07:54:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f6c9778dd060cbc1529585a85fe71f23aa503400617dad53593d91b5203ccea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.4690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}