Pith Number

pith:ZUBSXTH3

pith:2020:ZUBSXTH3RJ7BS44RWAQJR7JLJR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ebb-and-Flow Protocols: A Resolution of the Availability-Finality Dilemma

David Tse, Ertem Nusret Tas, Joachim Neu

arxiv:2009.04987 v3 · 2020-09-10 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZUBSXTH3RJ7BS44RWAQJR7JLJR}

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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	2026-07-05T02:12:42.857800Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd032bccfb8a7e197391b02098fd2b4c43a41a12f4dc947c22b689bc9db2d3b4

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.04987 · arxiv_version: 2009.04987v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.04987 · pith_short_12: ZUBSXTH3RJ7B · pith_short_16: ZUBSXTH3RJ7BS44R · pith_short_8: ZUBSXTH3

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/ZUBSXTH3RJ7BS44RWAQJR7JLJR \
  | 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: cd032bccfb8a7e197391b02098fd2b4c43a41a12f4dc947c22b689bc9db2d3b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcf4a9361df1eed36ba8b7cba3cf919d3ec7fc5a08d43774c556b6e251b46bad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-10T16:55:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39b7f3ba765adccc1cc7be13cd516419f88d5e32fa8e5a9415aedb052144c5c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.04987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}