Pith Number

pith:VDDSUFQX

pith:2015:VDDSUFQX4CDHD4Z2KSRLQAC76N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Phasers

John Mellor-Crummey, Karthik Murthy, Kuldeep S. Meel, Sri Raj Paul

arxiv:1512.07305 v2 · 2015-12-22 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDDSUFQX4CDHD4Z2KSRLQAC76N}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:11.158859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c72a1617e08671f33a54a2b8005ff359e35795a948658460b3f92ae3bd2799

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.07305 · arxiv_version: 1512.07305v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.07305 · pith_short_12: VDDSUFQX4CDH · pith_short_16: VDDSUFQX4CDHD4Z2 · pith_short_8: VDDSUFQX

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/VDDSUFQX4CDHD4Z2KSRLQAC76N \
  | 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: a8c72a1617e08671f33a54a2b8005ff359e35795a948658460b3f92ae3bd2799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81a7c447ac395b2b07aafd95a1fe3f95cb93615ce915cdd5ca7d042ec048720b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-22T23:55:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7666dc3277d5eb4c3fd304dfe94192d9bdaeac7e5e4fafd11cab907a9ec8fc8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.07305",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}