Pith Number

pith:VBBT4NMI

pith:2010:VBBT4NMIL3EVFFCSXZ4425WYAR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Local Computation: Lower and Upper Bounds

Fabian Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer, Thomas Moscibroda

arxiv:1011.5470 v2 · 2010-11-24 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBBT4NMIL3EVFFCSXZ4425WYAR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:00.693699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8433e35885ec9529452be79cd76d8046de194ceef03938fbead1401491372da

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.5470 · arxiv_version: 1011.5470v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.5470 · pith_short_12: VBBT4NMIL3EV · pith_short_16: VBBT4NMIL3EVFFCS · pith_short_8: VBBT4NMI

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/VBBT4NMIL3EVFFCSXZ4425WYAR \
  | 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: a8433e35885ec9529452be79cd76d8046de194ceef03938fbead1401491372da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "581ea18d7a5f65f862fe7c8a9df5412d98c083deabca0427de5e946e90a55a1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-24T19:56:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c5d0083e0b57c048af65ccc90e5fa7260f27b3c63f833cdcbf3b49f0fd315cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.5470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}