Pith Number

pith:WRPTHZE7

pith:2014:WRPTHZE72HWRW5V2BQ6S2KMND6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Switching Between Linear Consensus~Protocols: A Variational Approach

Michael Margaliot, Michael S. Branicky, Orel Ron

arxiv:1407.2399 v1 · 2014-07-09 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WRPTHZE72HWRW5V2BQ6S2KMND6}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:48:01.661947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b45f33e49fd1ed1b76ba0c3d2d298d1fb2b0eac3ee34302e9d01db9fb8127b73

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.2399 · arxiv_version: 1407.2399v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.2399 · pith_short_12: WRPTHZE72HWR · pith_short_16: WRPTHZE72HWRW5V2 · pith_short_8: WRPTHZE7

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/WRPTHZE72HWRW5V2BQ6S2KMND6 \
  | 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: b45f33e49fd1ed1b76ba0c3d2d298d1fb2b0eac3ee34302e9d01db9fb8127b73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b7670c066b558780128a5f7316300606388fe24cf6b7fcf062f5a3649418d7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-09T09:20:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "113621d4e60e2fc2a99995a102da98beeaee5106d057f496428a212e461d6fce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.2399",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}