Pith Number

pith:YZ44CC43

pith:2012:YZ44CC43CCUZ37UZODRJPZHA3N

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Feedback from nature: an optimal distributed algorithm for maximal independent set selection

Alex Scott, Lei Xu, Peter Jeavons

arxiv:1211.0235 v1 · 2012-11-01 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZ44CC43CCUZ37UZODRJPZHA3N}

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:42.659823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c679c10b9b10a99dfe9970e297e4e0db5537d00f763ef3253de17b2d9bf8b6f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0235 · arxiv_version: 1211.0235v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0235 · pith_short_12: YZ44CC43CCUZ · pith_short_16: YZ44CC43CCUZ37UZ · pith_short_8: YZ44CC43

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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/YZ44CC43CCUZ37UZODRJPZHA3N \
  | 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: c679c10b9b10a99dfe9970e297e4e0db5537d00f763ef3253de17b2d9bf8b6f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9da15de11585c3b8a92337ceddf617acffd5497f6d7179b0fed06be3c9a000a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-01T17:41:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edc3f894ebea076ec4ca222094ad20831033430fbaa9f384e1a3872f21d6d680"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}