Pith Number

pith:T73WK4PF

pith:2017:T73WK4PFKDUY6LFEXH4YX75NFP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal Protocols for Information Dissemination Using Emergent Signals

Adrian Kosowski (GANG), Bartlomiej Dudek

arxiv:1705.09798 v3 · 2017-05-27 · cs.DS · cs.DC · math.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T73WK4PFKDUY6LFEXH4YX75NFP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:18.703193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ff76571e550e98f2ca4b9f98bffad2be4d057c826168fd110e2421a54b17fef

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09798 · arxiv_version: 1705.09798v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09798 · pith_short_12: T73WK4PFKDUY · pith_short_16: T73WK4PFKDUY6LFE · pith_short_8: T73WK4PF

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/T73WK4PFKDUY6LFEXH4YX75NFP \
  | 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: 9ff76571e550e98f2ca4b9f98bffad2be4d057c826168fd110e2421a54b17fef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3f0cafd956dd55a00976a9ee391716f86ce4eae6758c005800ab5c613b5cb6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "math.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-27T09:46:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4431a883f03ab41dfba1e87b652ae0bf4c66da6ff2196790a04e6410d894a6ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}