Pith Number

pith:U5JYYWVU

pith:2017:U5JYYWVURTE5MR4XXC7XWQCSAC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Centralized vs Decentralized Multi-Agent Guesswork

Ahmad Beirami, Asaf Cohen, Muriel M\'edard, Salman Salamatian

arxiv:1705.09372 v1 · 2017-05-25 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5JYYWVURTE5MR4XXC7XWQCSAC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:38.887898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7538c5ab48cc9d64797b8bf7b4052008c1da89c4022af843619b01eb9278dab

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09372 · arxiv_version: 1705.09372v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09372 · pith_short_12: U5JYYWVURTE5 · pith_short_16: U5JYYWVURTE5MR4X · pith_short_8: U5JYYWVU

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/U5JYYWVURTE5MR4XXC7XWQCSAC \
  | 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: a7538c5ab48cc9d64797b8bf7b4052008c1da89c4022af843619b01eb9278dab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "050ba869fa4ebc28889b539ffc4fa96fb7d6efa7454f5c62e52fa7a51f2dcfd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-25T21:38:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9fd1e5d32cbbbcebd46996494252792a77e442b8a779f5fa41b9151851390f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09372",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}