Pith Number

pith:X5TL77IU

pith:2014:X5TL77IUWPKOP7WNFEWIVR6OMI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Best of Two Local Models: Local Centralized and Local Distributed Algorithms

Dana Ron, Guy Even, Moti Medina

arxiv:1402.3796 v3 · 2014-02-16 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5TL77IUWPKOP7WNFEWIVR6OMI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:58.810018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf66bffd14b3d4e7fecd292c8ac7ce620a1b10c17d1735ff4facd9b0f320a3b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.3796 · arxiv_version: 1402.3796v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.3796 · pith_short_12: X5TL77IUWPKO · pith_short_16: X5TL77IUWPKOP7WN · pith_short_8: X5TL77IU

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/X5TL77IUWPKOP7WNFEWIVR6OMI \
  | 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: bf66bffd14b3d4e7fecd292c8ac7ce620a1b10c17d1735ff4facd9b0f320a3b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f88ada3aff3aeedac9f653545beb4c37231ee3532bf8390d0e4a68557b22ec8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-16T13:09:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "769bfa0531318284997d1afb5c8bd45c8e5d6394437bb1e89002495d381848dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.3796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}