Pith Number

pith:WXR6QHLY

pith:2013:WXR6QHLYWDKFTG4MFBQMYSL6SS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ants: Mobile Finite State Machines

Jara Uitto, Roger Wattenhofer, Tobias Langner, Yuval Emek

arxiv:1311.3062 v1 · 2013-11-13 · cs.DC · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXR6QHLYWDKFTG4MFBQMYSL6SS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:13.247048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5e3e81d78b0d4599b8c2860cc497e949c01448d2721076f8a707aca87bb5d7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.3062 · arxiv_version: 1311.3062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.3062 · pith_short_12: WXR6QHLYWDKF · pith_short_16: WXR6QHLYWDKFTG4M · pith_short_8: WXR6QHLY

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/WXR6QHLYWDKFTG4MFBQMYSL6SS \
  | 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: b5e3e81d78b0d4599b8c2860cc497e949c01448d2721076f8a707aca87bb5d7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb7bd80bc06fd4632d06ebe1a134d0d7355e75df7f9ab28355497871a9698519",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-13T09:54:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cceff830a8ecc9536c7f68a5071b97cdf1d0a9862e215535c239aaf29734cb1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.3062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}