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The Carnot Bound: Limits and Possibilities for Bandwidth-Efficient Consensus

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Main Authors:	Lewis-Pye, Andrew, O'Grady, Patrick
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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