Pith Number

pith:3FLW7ABZ

pith:2015:3FLW7ABZEPDVWOEPI7PXP7APUJ

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A mathematical analysis of the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction

Andrew Lewis-Pye, Antonio Montalban

arxiv:1509.01194 v1 · 2015-09-02 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3FLW7ABZEPDVWOEPI7PXP7APUJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:59.342457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9576f803923c75b388f47df77fc0fa24578c31bab49811a3f4f1d33b3664340

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.01194 · arxiv_version: 1509.01194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.01194 · pith_short_12: 3FLW7ABZEPDV · pith_short_16: 3FLW7ABZEPDVWOEP · pith_short_8: 3FLW7ABZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3FLW7ABZEPDVWOEPI7PXP7APUJ \
  | 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: d9576f803923c75b388f47df77fc0fa24578c31bab49811a3f4f1d33b3664340

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "502d344d81c79dab22309ee2e8dc9548cd56a94cb2da29b2061aeecc4187cfe8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-02T05:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d22249bea7910473466c389cf468e44590f983ea2cc98806fbe2d34cd93f3b67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.01194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}