Pith Number

pith:ZNHY5SWI

pith:2018:ZNHY5SWIIQB5CNQYJTZPB3OFS4

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Optimal leader selection and demotion in leader-follower multi-agent systems

Kazuhiro Sato

arxiv:1802.06479 v1 · 2018-02-19 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNHY5SWIIQB5CNQYJTZPB3OFS4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:03.175448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb4f8ecac84403d136184cf2f0edc59736c757252f2b83de4b01b8e86d70c2be

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06479 · arxiv_version: 1802.06479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06479 · pith_short_12: ZNHY5SWIIQB5 · pith_short_16: ZNHY5SWIIQB5CNQY · pith_short_8: ZNHY5SWI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZNHY5SWIIQB5CNQYJTZPB3OFS4 \
  | 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: cb4f8ecac84403d136184cf2f0edc59736c757252f2b83de4b01b8e86d70c2be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ceaf61336e23edad50b85307b271a9a8a1446141326746bfb14ac53269d2580",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-19T01:24:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "605df6f1bde064c794df207c637f1044f32c5f3ceeb8e505fa9ffd6b687c276a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}