Pith Number

pith:YQHBNPI2

pith:2016:YQHBNPI2JZLKZVL3UNSJLM3TAP

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The Information Flow Problem on Clock Networks

Ross Atkins

arxiv:1605.05391 v1 · 2016-05-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQHBNPI2JZLKZVL3UNSJLM3TAP}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:14:35.136283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c40e16bd1a4e56acd57ba36495b37303ea09d245e24f53b0ebf46d1ea42358c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05391 · arxiv_version: 1605.05391v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05391 · pith_short_12: YQHBNPI2JZLK · pith_short_16: YQHBNPI2JZLKZVL3 · pith_short_8: YQHBNPI2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YQHBNPI2JZLKZVL3UNSJLM3TAP \
  | 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: c40e16bd1a4e56acd57ba36495b37303ea09d245e24f53b0ebf46d1ea42358c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4537643a6530a0a99df43f1f087cbd0482f21d07d904fd1a2527632520fe97ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-17T22:44:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad5fedf7bf8e1ea8b8c47c36f416c3f5ec9476e67efce3d4e0f3713a37718eeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05391",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}