Pith Number

pith:X7Y4ZXPU

pith:2016:X7Y4ZXPUXJ2A2ZJB6RUIIQN43C

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Analysis of Distributed Snapshot Algorithms

Sharath Srivatsa

arxiv:1601.08039 v1 · 2016-01-29 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7Y4ZXPUXJ2A2ZJB6RUIIQN43C}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:41.113273Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bff1ccddf4ba740d6521f4688441bcd89c0404a7e19e25bddcdfa305d2792a25

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.08039 · arxiv_version: 1601.08039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.08039 · pith_short_12: X7Y4ZXPUXJ2A · pith_short_16: X7Y4ZXPUXJ2A2ZJB · pith_short_8: X7Y4ZXPU

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/X7Y4ZXPUXJ2A2ZJB6RUIIQN43C \
  | 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: bff1ccddf4ba740d6521f4688441bcd89c0404a7e19e25bddcdfa305d2792a25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ae7e1a72adce05a64ddf2132700bb3f26633f02f9ea940082ce16a665fdd6b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-29T10:31:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f265d67c96d565b6db138f9fabc83fe8ee86d311ee75900846269cb33e11fa59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.08039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}