Pith Number

pith:VCZ5GGIR

pith:2022:VCZ5GGIRE2PZO3GS7HHBL56CL4

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On the Hierarchy of Distributed Majority Protocols

Amin Coja-Oghlan, Dominik Kaaser, Malin Rau, Max Hahn-Klimroth, Oliver Gebhard, Petra Berenbrink

arxiv:2205.08203 v1 · 2022-05-17 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCZ5GGIRE2PZO3GS7HHBL56CL4}

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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	2026-07-05T04:24:00.414235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b3d31911269f976cd2f9ce15f7c25f093518e4285f823681cbf74357fdb585

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.08203 · arxiv_version: 2205.08203v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.08203 · pith_short_12: VCZ5GGIRE2PZ · pith_short_16: VCZ5GGIRE2PZO3GS · pith_short_8: VCZ5GGIR

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/VCZ5GGIRE2PZO3GS7HHBL56CL4 \
  | 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: a8b3d31911269f976cd2f9ce15f7c25f093518e4285f823681cbf74357fdb585

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ca62d1b580f9ef80fffa437046b9c2bc20cdb65308e175b6472ea3e6737e19d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-17T09:53:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b76519d28af7398571b854fd1b44dd4b44c41dd838ac3a644b638d00a31225d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.08203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}