Pith Number

pith:YLILBK53

pith:2015:YLILBK53ZFWJPDO64AXZ3P4VUW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consensus using Asynchronous Failure Detectors

Nancy Lynch, Srikanth Sastry

arxiv:1502.02538 v2 · 2015-02-09 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLILBK53ZFWJPDO64AXZ3P4VUW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:26:52.548114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2d0b0abbbc96c978ddee02f9dbf95a5a0a0520f13884ac5e433416518616fd7

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.02538 · arxiv_version: 1502.02538v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.02538 · pith_short_12: YLILBK53ZFWJ · pith_short_16: YLILBK53ZFWJPDO6 · pith_short_8: YLILBK53

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/YLILBK53ZFWJPDO64AXZ3P4VUW \
  | 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: c2d0b0abbbc96c978ddee02f9dbf95a5a0a0520f13884ac5e433416518616fd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9531834eb0bdbad686089779f69c93a317c02158a6991602fec0eb5004b9d650",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-09T16:22:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e466cc206c4a2c3ecf9c8ef12b8d7bfab028af5bd6f4809f82b694555da4b9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.02538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}