Pith Number

pith:X3HMRV7Z

pith:2012:X3HMRV7Z4CXA55DIUNZPR7P2N5

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The Impact of Communication Delays on Distributed Consensus Algorithms

Konstantinos I. Tsianos, Michael G. Rabbat

arxiv:1207.5839 v1 · 2012-07-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3HMRV7Z4CXA55DIUNZPR7P2N5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:50:10.182349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

becec8d7f9e0ae0ef468a372f8fdfa6f57339697287939a18b0504f7493bafd4

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.5839 · arxiv_version: 1207.5839v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.5839 · pith_short_12: X3HMRV7Z4CXA · pith_short_16: X3HMRV7Z4CXA55DI · pith_short_8: X3HMRV7Z

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/X3HMRV7Z4CXA55DIUNZPR7P2N5 \
  | 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: becec8d7f9e0ae0ef468a372f8fdfa6f57339697287939a18b0504f7493bafd4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b70f33864461f3875053693b059e7f7fd6b6d22ed4f70351f3da032f395e1cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-24T22:15:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f07ef69fc6b91ff9f183cbbd93cdcc4e70e934236f84b0361a96606ccd815c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.5839",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}