Pith Number

pith:YKPBBYN2

pith:2019:YKPBBYN2ZEHNJ725BNOWPBD4BG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coordination Through Shared Randomness

Anand D. Sarwate, Gowtham R. Kurri, Vinod M. Prabhakaran

arxiv:1908.08407 v3 · 2019-08-22 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKPBBYN2ZEHNJ725BNOWPBD4BG}

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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	2026-07-05T02:51:35.365697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c29e10e1bac90ed4ff5d0b5d67847c0998f82b6500d43e57ebcb0a36372fbd9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.08407 · arxiv_version: 1908.08407v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08407 · pith_short_12: YKPBBYN2ZEHN · pith_short_16: YKPBBYN2ZEHNJ725 · pith_short_8: YKPBBYN2

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/YKPBBYN2ZEHNJ725BNOWPBD4BG \
  | 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: c29e10e1bac90ed4ff5d0b5d67847c0998f82b6500d43e57ebcb0a36372fbd9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "533a54f75d80db5c9549147f022b11dddbf67190aa246a7b9c72fc9d2d2a1204",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-22T14:36:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e36a535997271aed86302cde8c0fa78f57f487652f5c6e526a2bef96656171c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.08407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}