Pith Number

pith:Y6G6VRAL

pith:2013:Y6G6VRALWYFVXKPJ4BC2Z3S5AN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The age of information in gossip networks

Hai L. Vu, Jori Selen, Lachlan L.H. Andrew, Yoni Nazarathy

arxiv:1310.7919 v1 · 2013-10-29 · math.PR · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6G6VRALWYFVXKPJ4BC2Z3S5AN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:27.672092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c78deac40bb60b5ba9e9e045acee5d03762e4dbeff4934a744a5e40fb0777983

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.7919 · arxiv_version: 1310.7919v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.7919 · pith_short_12: Y6G6VRALWYFV · pith_short_16: Y6G6VRALWYFVXKPJ · pith_short_8: Y6G6VRAL

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/Y6G6VRALWYFVXKPJ4BC2Z3S5AN \
  | 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: c78deac40bb60b5ba9e9e045acee5d03762e4dbeff4934a744a5e40fb0777983

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9b9790a25b36d5251546a2b3fbb7c1b6e813b9bab355ff9696f800af4fcf63f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-29T18:51:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c146efee44ce86640652b3b8a2b5ed21b221c349a61731c98f5608c18b39c83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.7919",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}