Pith Number

pith:VN7OFAWN

pith:2018:VN7OFAWNJYVIIL4VS4UF4PSABO

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Almost logarithmic-time space optimal leader election in population protocols

Grzegorz Stachowiak, Leszek G\k{a}sieniec, Przemys{\l}aw Uzna\'nski

arxiv:1802.06867 v2 · 2018-02-19 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VN7OFAWNJYVIIL4VS4UF4PSABO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:07.824303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab7ee282cd4e2a842f9597285e3e400b8c08f18be80cd6f8393385c526323cd5

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06867 · arxiv_version: 1802.06867v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06867 · pith_short_12: VN7OFAWNJYVI · pith_short_16: VN7OFAWNJYVIIL4V · pith_short_8: VN7OFAWN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VN7OFAWNJYVIIL4VS4UF4PSABO \
  | 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: ab7ee282cd4e2a842f9597285e3e400b8c08f18be80cd6f8393385c526323cd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c48f4a00488ac0d6b72445072e7b5cd212338ec0317e37d3cfeb857486c2ec0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-19T21:41:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e859781a61515735fc9b1ff3d946db4a44d5c239660132eef68068f9766eb78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}