Pith Number

pith:ZPO2GIFD

pith:2016:ZPO2GIFD347E6F6XCJS4ZDTUK5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-stabilizing Byzantine Clock Synchronization with Optimal Precision

Christoph Lenzen, Pankaj Khanchandani

arxiv:1609.09281 v1 · 2016-09-29 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZPO2GIFD347E6F6XCJS4ZDTUK5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:38.290384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cbdda320a3df3e4f17d71265cc8e74574fb9b27b7d72d0dc93393b042cb8d839

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09281 · arxiv_version: 1609.09281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09281 · pith_short_12: ZPO2GIFD347E · pith_short_16: ZPO2GIFD347E6F6X · pith_short_8: ZPO2GIFD

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/ZPO2GIFD347E6F6XCJS4ZDTUK5 \
  | 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: cbdda320a3df3e4f17d71265cc8e74574fb9b27b7d72d0dc93393b042cb8d839

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37d064d5f9116231b0fc3a139617dab16810fcd3947904f71ec79fba9885c49e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-29T10:03:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ff8acc68ca4e04b49e7eeb2ba659fd81ef15e751db7b6a923ada5308cb06e3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}