Pith Number

pith:ZD4K52JS

pith:2019:ZD4K52JSOTRZEMKJZAFBILUCRS

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A Generalised Solution to Distributed Consensus

Heidi Howard, Richard Mortier

arxiv:1902.06776 v1 · 2019-02-18 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZD4K52JSOTRZEMKJZAFBILUCRS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:53:40.825640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8f8aee93274e3923149c80a142e828cb12e8f8d73b86b2a52eec2763afb71fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.06776 · arxiv_version: 1902.06776v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.06776 · pith_short_12: ZD4K52JSOTRZ · pith_short_16: ZD4K52JSOTRZEMKJ · pith_short_8: ZD4K52JS

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/ZD4K52JSOTRZEMKJZAFBILUCRS \
  | 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: c8f8aee93274e3923149c80a142e828cb12e8f8d73b86b2a52eec2763afb71fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4598b92318993c9d3773ac53a7c83aa49695bf1adc2437ee828b223cab6a6b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-18T19:53:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d281948c6482d25f3d97fbfcfddc8c6ca7d90319d52ee0244f17d7e0894dbdd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.06776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}