Pith Number

pith:3JNZ3Y3E

pith:2013:3JNZ3Y3ELWXXZSPS5HTXLTSQNC

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Noise-Induced Bistable States and Their Mean Switching Time in Foraging Colonies

Alan J. McKane, Louise Dyson, Tommaso Biancalani

arxiv:1306.4167 v3 · 2013-06-18 · q-bio.PE · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JNZ3Y3ELWXXZSPS5HTXLTSQNC}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:49:15.667156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da5b9de3645daf7cc9f2e9e775ce506891b6c90ad26809f46e67b396b9521b54

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.4167 · arxiv_version: 1306.4167v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.4167 · pith_short_12: 3JNZ3Y3ELWXX · pith_short_16: 3JNZ3Y3ELWXXZSPS · pith_short_8: 3JNZ3Y3E

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/3JNZ3Y3ELWXXZSPS5HTXLTSQNC \
  | 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: da5b9de3645daf7cc9f2e9e775ce506891b6c90ad26809f46e67b396b9521b54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a15960b526b6fb0ce8333cfb48b196e8563c39ee21f1dcbdbbc719b1d40ea593",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-18T12:46:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7203835d375e321d5d0d9415e7228a0b326d9c7f6cc09f3ee02e89498ef2d01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.4167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}