Pith Number

pith:UNKFZZJQ

pith:2018:UNKFZZJQJCCC427MXTJMKWYU27

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed transactional reads: the strong, the quick, the fresh \& the impossible

Alejandro Z. Tomsic (DELYS), Manuel Bravo, Marc Shapiro (DELYS)

arxiv:1810.01698 v1 · 2018-10-03 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UNKFZZJQJCCC427MXTJMKWYU27}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:04:11.204742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3545ce53048842e6becbcd2c55b14d7d58c84abae490a39c40b65b0cefbba9f

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.01698 · arxiv_version: 1810.01698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.01698 · pith_short_12: UNKFZZJQJCCC · pith_short_16: UNKFZZJQJCCC427M · pith_short_8: UNKFZZJQ

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/UNKFZZJQJCCC427MXTJMKWYU27 \
  | 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: a3545ce53048842e6becbcd2c55b14d7d58c84abae490a39c40b65b0cefbba9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29720e7598ee7c298e3da6dcc4131d32907fecd8a59166ed6cf26fc69c58d109",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-03T11:51:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a61db247f3988b1c36d7fb983e3888bdf1e467d8665959a2f90dffed84a3401f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.01698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}