Pith Number

pith:ZCN52VOP

pith:2017:ZCN52VOPL2ZCC3CS4CE4KLSGHD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal epidemic dissemination

Hugues Mercier, Laurent Hayez, Miguel Matos

arxiv:1709.00198 v1 · 2017-09-01 · 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{ZCN52VOPL2ZCC3CS4CE4KLSGHD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:13.105769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c89bdd55cf5eb2216c52e089c52e4638c29926754a8478aa37d50144205119ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00198 · arxiv_version: 1709.00198v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00198 · pith_short_12: ZCN52VOPL2ZC · pith_short_16: ZCN52VOPL2ZCC3CS · pith_short_8: ZCN52VOP

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/ZCN52VOPL2ZCC3CS4CE4KLSGHD \
  | 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: c89bdd55cf5eb2216c52e089c52e4638c29926754a8478aa37d50144205119ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ee6b26de38d37a51a5187e02797b07a5267c7e555d0a2e1203e526448b24024",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-01T08:44:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8496f8a423d9bac574fcf6bf9fd8bf30e9c7c66f87cf2d7601b84c1c43761bee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}