Pith Number

pith:2IUGYVZA

pith:2026:2IUGYVZAQYQBNH76OPALOBPY2I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discrete turn strategies emerge in information-limited navigation

Benjamin B. Machta, Jose M. Betancourt, Matthew P. Leighton, Michael C. Abbott, Thierry Emonet

arxiv:2602.23324 v2 · 2026-02-26 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IUGYVZAQYQBNH76OPALOBPY2I}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-24T00:14:22.554430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2286c57208620169ffe73c0b705f8d23d6009d9b8b9e6c0fd5de050f420b62e

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.23324 · arxiv_version: 2602.23324v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.23324 · pith_short_12: 2IUGYVZAQYQB · pith_short_16: 2IUGYVZAQYQBNH76 · pith_short_8: 2IUGYVZA

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/2IUGYVZAQYQBNH76OPALOBPY2I \
  | 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: d2286c57208620169ffe73c0b705f8d23d6009d9b8b9e6c0fd5de050f420b62e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01da9797c319a5231601853608887049fe2abba8ea7f3f6e05b334f2a3db57fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-26T18:32:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7c5e57be63dac1c6f70f6e01c535c0ef3203b4dfd9ca2d02becdc8cd323a52e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.23324",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}