Pith Number

pith:2GN6EZCA

pith:2017:2GN6EZCAZNE2T3IF4JSKE2GNM4

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Twitching Motility of Bacteria with Type IV Pili: Fractal Walks, First passage time and their Consequences on Microcolonies

Konark Bisht, Rahul Marathe, Stefan Klumpp, Varsha Banerjee

arxiv:1707.06388 v3 · 2017-07-20 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\pithnumber{2GN6EZCAZNE2T3IF4JSKE2GNM4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:29.738870Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d19be26440cb49a9ed05e264a268cd67217590d196a64952e3f137713f87a0bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06388 · arxiv_version: 1707.06388v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06388 · pith_short_12: 2GN6EZCAZNE2 · pith_short_16: 2GN6EZCAZNE2T3IF · pith_short_8: 2GN6EZCA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2GN6EZCAZNE2T3IF4JSKE2GNM4 \
  | 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: d19be26440cb49a9ed05e264a268cd67217590d196a64952e3f137713f87a0bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d6f82c7ae997be124c2cb7a4adaeb0233c6d12ce826ae3cc689d1dbe121e89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-20T06:40:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b65433cdeadbf4e49079a148ac11f8ff9cb7efd7eaeef472c79cde05fe22cba9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06388",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}