Pith Number

pith:ZAYDSKZG

pith:2018:ZAYDSKZGMKVPALI6VI7MNDPC7C

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Hardness of minimal symmetry breaking in distributed computing

Alkida Balliu, Dennis Olivetti, Juho Hirvonen, Jukka Suomela

arxiv:1811.01643 v3 · 2018-11-05 · cs.DC · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZAYDSKZGMKVPALI6VI7MNDPC7C}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:53:50.325506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c830392b2662aaf02d1eaa3ec68de2f8928fe782a93ad066acc9dce4ee0697b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01643 · arxiv_version: 1811.01643v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01643 · pith_short_12: ZAYDSKZGMKVP · pith_short_16: ZAYDSKZGMKVPALI6 · pith_short_8: ZAYDSKZG

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/ZAYDSKZGMKVPALI6VI7MNDPC7C \
  | 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: c830392b2662aaf02d1eaa3ec68de2f8928fe782a93ad066acc9dce4ee0697b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9788acfb021853e7357d66faa1276864c1105b2f31ce1fc1890f9ce91aef0a20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-05T12:39:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddb144d5824bab2d9ffd81d02126826df672a42a99c812c10d13d68f882b51bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}