Pith Number

pith:Y7WFZR3M

pith:2025:Y7WFZR3MTGC5POXPS6XJ6ESUBO

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Distributed system perspective on Backscatter systems

Jincheng Guan, Jun Zhang

arxiv:2506.04833 v1 · 2025-06-05 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7WFZR3MTGC5POXPS6XJ6ESUBO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:16:37.468692Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7ec5cc76c9985d7baef97ae9f12540ba3d2f7ff1eb668334e2b67e785d2b860

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.04833 · arxiv_version: 2506.04833v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.04833 · pith_short_12: Y7WFZR3MTGC5 · pith_short_16: Y7WFZR3MTGC5POXP · pith_short_8: Y7WFZR3M

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/Y7WFZR3MTGC5POXPS6XJ6ESUBO \
  | 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: c7ec5cc76c9985d7baef97ae9f12540ba3d2f7ff1eb668334e2b67e785d2b860

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14c9affdf56c89d2985b3c5768040c8b892fb4a6d2a38f99540b33547fedb921",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-05T09:54:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbe762f5c88c9be741cd0d0e8ffe1441c0ac4f7635c1a02d0df4e66487f45c2c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.04833",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}