Pith Number

pith:WJKE3VTT

pith:2017:WJKE3VTTKCOWAEI3FU35GKMC2E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Benefit of Being Flexible in Distributed Computation

Christina Fragouli, Linqi Song, Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan

arxiv:1705.08464 v2 · 2017-05-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJKE3VTTKCOWAEI3FU35GKMC2E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:20.593911Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2544dd673509d60111b2d37d32982d1028023d962f91e6414efbfa6bb0ee413

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08464 · arxiv_version: 1705.08464v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08464 · pith_short_12: WJKE3VTTKCOW · pith_short_16: WJKE3VTTKCOWAEI3 · pith_short_8: WJKE3VTT

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/WJKE3VTTKCOWAEI3FU35GKMC2E \
  | 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: b2544dd673509d60111b2d37d32982d1028023d962f91e6414efbfa6bb0ee413

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e74f48ec10f55b99cb05747121868cee1ba3ac35de0097722167daa86b56a02b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-23T18:24:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbbf5ecca36018dd7f685910dc7be0d91d26d8461a61e89a9ca7aea4bc974f74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}