Pith Number

pith:3ABOBMBU

pith:2019:3ABOBMBUW4NXKFVLNQCXXPJ7XL

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Getting a head start: the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, tune foraging decision to motivational asymmetry when faced with competition

David Lusseau, Eilidh Stirrup

arxiv:1905.06534 v1 · 2019-05-16 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.CB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ABOBMBUW4NXKFVLNQCXXPJ7XL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:02.000920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d802e0b034b71b7516ab6c057bbd3fbaf8df3012c6011708c264836da2bf9c86

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.06534 · arxiv_version: 1905.06534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.06534 · pith_short_12: 3ABOBMBUW4NX · pith_short_16: 3ABOBMBUW4NXKFVL · pith_short_8: 3ABOBMBU

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/3ABOBMBUW4NXKFVLNQCXXPJ7XL \
  | 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: d802e0b034b71b7516ab6c057bbd3fbaf8df3012c6011708c264836da2bf9c86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "644b19b8701c797bb806be1cc0ddd0d039870fa1a09fe97d0938e4b0912b6c5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T05:41:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d14deb5e2d2b6ffb166b2c4d667e077b39ff3fc055a974aa8ddbcb3a6e90c20a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.06534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}