Pith Number

pith:TQ4YUAUS

pith:2018:TQ4YUAUS2WWFR5EQ3LUBCJ6HGM

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A Modular Design for Geo-Distributed Querying

Bradley King, DELYS), Dimitrios Vasilas (LIP6, LIP6), Marc Shapiro (DELYS

arxiv:1803.04141 v1 · 2018-03-12 · cs.DC · cs.DB · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TQ4YUAUS2WWFR5EQ3LUBCJ6HGM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:32.514641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c398a0292d5ac58f490dae81127c733215dba6aa71fc0cb74f076231adcd5d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04141 · arxiv_version: 1803.04141v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04141 · pith_short_12: TQ4YUAUS2WWF · pith_short_16: TQ4YUAUS2WWFR5EQ · pith_short_8: TQ4YUAUS

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/TQ4YUAUS2WWFR5EQ3LUBCJ6HGM \
  | 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: 9c398a0292d5ac58f490dae81127c733215dba6aa71fc0cb74f076231adcd5d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bba7382cd1dd6eaeb5b04b6972364fd0bed1fd6e445bdb0a94cf4be4ab4ac48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-12T07:39:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb2a7859ed43f0bb23f234d76531c4515d3dd0e3c4917069d94976fc4d8906e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04141",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}