Pith Number

pith:W7AQN2AM

pith:2012:W7AQN2AMDDZB6GWFKZWVTUTNBL

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Broadcast Gossip Algorithms for Consensus on Strongly Connected Digraphs

Michael G. Rabbat, Wu Shaochuan

arxiv:1208.4895 v2 · 2012-08-24 · cs.SY · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W7AQN2AMDDZB6GWFKZWVTUTNBL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:46:33.970859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7c106e80c18f21f1ac5566d59d26d0ad1958e1e775501cda681f97ddd1b00c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4895 · arxiv_version: 1208.4895v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4895 · pith_short_12: W7AQN2AMDDZB · pith_short_16: W7AQN2AMDDZB6GWF · pith_short_8: W7AQN2AM

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/W7AQN2AMDDZB6GWFKZWVTUTNBL \
  | 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: b7c106e80c18f21f1ac5566d59d26d0ad1958e1e775501cda681f97ddd1b00c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca5c8f464a2108a6d22ef9758710bee2c27798b65c4792854bc3d1de5a8b214d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-24T02:39:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09cc4fcb896335dfb07f29e4a369b6001b5a6df43d22fb1f743aaa4cd2ba8b63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}