Pith Number

pith:TG2KKL7E

pith:2018:TG2KKL7EA2K4WT6O3IBJRAZFQX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Intense Competition can Drive Selfish Explorers to Optimize Coverage

Amos Korman (IRIF, CNRS, Simon Collet (IRIF, UPD7)

arxiv:1805.01319 v1 · 2018-05-03 · cs.GT · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TG2KKL7EA2K4WT6O3IBJRAZFQX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:51.780178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99b4a52fe40695cb4fceda0298832585ee5447842dbc8e75840fff92e821faf3

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01319 · arxiv_version: 1805.01319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01319 · pith_short_12: TG2KKL7EA2K4 · pith_short_16: TG2KKL7EA2K4WT6O · pith_short_8: TG2KKL7E

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/TG2KKL7EA2K4WT6O3IBJRAZFQX \
  | 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: 99b4a52fe40695cb4fceda0298832585ee5447842dbc8e75840fff92e821faf3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c17eb17c480863367e58a68e7aa24e289e47cb365fdc1e41a879a0742db25d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-03T14:18:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19a29a6797657e774be89b299c49afcd7622bd68d3cdbf23ed1dc8966cc8e5dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}