Pith Number

pith:ZSDJ3XMF

pith:2016:ZSDJ3XMFQGJAISYKQVOZGERGFO

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Feedback from Nature: Simple Randomised Distributed Algorithms for Maximal Independent Set Selection and Greedy Colouring

Alex Scott, Lei Xu, Peter Jeavons

arxiv:1601.04306 v1 · 2016-01-17 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZSDJ3XMFQGJAISYKQVOZGERGFO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:45.376911Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc869ddd858192044b0a855d9312262b91a387edc0cc0a819f28ca58ad3e8d5d

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04306 · arxiv_version: 1601.04306v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04306 · pith_short_12: ZSDJ3XMFQGJA · pith_short_16: ZSDJ3XMFQGJAISYK · pith_short_8: ZSDJ3XMF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZSDJ3XMFQGJAISYKQVOZGERGFO \
  | 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: cc869ddd858192044b0a855d9312262b91a387edc0cc0a819f28ca58ad3e8d5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a621ea78cdcf8090be68f22a2785d3c08ad19399bdd474d7dc574cd22e9f0e49",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-17T16:19:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "827a489801768d21aefc3981c84d5da9db8fed78da3fa72828c24334c554549c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04306",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}