Pith Number

pith:Z2H6C4AT

pith:2018:Z2H6C4ATWFFPO6OQQX5SPMFEWA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stable and Consistent Membership at Scale with Rapid

Dahlia Malkhi, Ivan Porto Carreiro, Lalith Suresh, Parikshit Gopalan, Zeeshan Lokhandwala

arxiv:1803.03620 v1 · 2018-03-09 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2H6C4ATWFFPO6OQQX5SPMFEWA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:38.924518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce8fe17013b14af779d085fb27b0a4b00eb9de8fd253da465bfceaa3d9113fdf

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.03620 · arxiv_version: 1803.03620v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03620 · pith_short_12: Z2H6C4ATWFFP · pith_short_16: Z2H6C4ATWFFPO6OQ · pith_short_8: Z2H6C4AT

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/Z2H6C4ATWFFPO6OQQX5SPMFEWA \
  | 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: ce8fe17013b14af779d085fb27b0a4b00eb9de8fd253da465bfceaa3d9113fdf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e9861178731b99b327db71880723f7ade0fc1a9658170aa24c6cf7d9ee5566a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-09T18:05:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8765a1526bb2a53f9c299d1615f57392a3bdfdfea7547309ead4e633b0f3efe1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.03620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}