Pith Number

pith:WF5LKRXM

pith:2018:WF5LKRXMQQTCTJFHSP2HK3DVEX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed leader election and computation of local identifiers for programmable matter

Nader Mbarek (LaBRI), Nicolas Gastineau (Le2i), Olivier Togni (Le2i), Wahabou Abdou (UBFC)

arxiv:1807.10461 v1 · 2018-07-27 · cs.DC · cs.DM · cs.DS · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WF5LKRXMQQTCTJFHSP2HK3DVEX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:40.529129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b17ab546ec842629a4a793f4756c7525e6b1c3d0850bdad03ce9713aefc08f0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.10461 · arxiv_version: 1807.10461v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.10461 · pith_short_12: WF5LKRXMQQTC · pith_short_16: WF5LKRXMQQTCTJFH · pith_short_8: WF5LKRXM

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/WF5LKRXMQQTCTJFHSP2HK3DVEX \
  | 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: b17ab546ec842629a4a793f4756c7525e6b1c3d0850bdad03ce9713aefc08f0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29f8c4d614dc69af125f6574a0f1d2fc03d5111028affc711dcc066f217562ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-27T07:20:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc3efa774ae2708bc2ff16a39d8dfc2d54f7aa7579aae65c3291f06c71ad632c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.10461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}