Pith Number

pith:XV2TO7VR

pith:2019:XV2TO7VRHGQLF5NBAT4XDPIELU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to Distribute Computation in Networks

Alejandro Cohen, Derya Malak, Muriel Medard

arxiv:1912.03531 v2 · 2019-12-07 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XV2TO7VRHGQLF5NBAT4XDPIELU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T00:35:03.277072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd75377eb139a0b2f5a104f971bd045d264ff08c919dbbe82cccb1d5cc5edadf

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.03531 · arxiv_version: 1912.03531v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.03531 · pith_short_12: XV2TO7VRHGQL · pith_short_16: XV2TO7VRHGQLF5NB · pith_short_8: XV2TO7VR

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/XV2TO7VRHGQLF5NBAT4XDPIELU \
  | 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: bd75377eb139a0b2f5a104f971bd045d264ff08c919dbbe82cccb1d5cc5edadf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c01709b9c0239ee441122e59f9327f58d82c5134b4b365d7b5a0a4a4822f87ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-07T17:01:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7670ec8eee2b4dab7d5f32585167b041ac7b8550c6809c443152e6cac3a5905"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.03531",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}