Pith Number

pith:2PEL56JQ

pith:2017:2PEL56JQOSIU7TVP6Q2DYKRMG3

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Spatial organization and interactions of harvester ants during foraging activity

Deborah M. Gordon, Jacob D. Davidson

arxiv:1709.08343 v1 · 2017-09-25 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2PEL56JQOSIU7TVP6Q2DYKRMG3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:43.143090Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3c8bef93074914fceaff4343c2a2c36c12864317b79d4169f00762dcde05097

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08343 · arxiv_version: 1709.08343v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08343 · pith_short_12: 2PEL56JQOSIU · pith_short_16: 2PEL56JQOSIU7TVP · pith_short_8: 2PEL56JQ

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/2PEL56JQOSIU7TVP6Q2DYKRMG3 \
  | 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: d3c8bef93074914fceaff4343c2a2c36c12864317b79d4169f00762dcde05097

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7e2097a1597a48cb4007a29cc5491c72177d4b0064d5fc700855bd23cb5997e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T06:44:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dea3cd00fd633b3630d36159bfc4b4fdaf1ceb168e5286e9d7844547eaa13811"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}