Pith Number

pith:5E6YP5TR

pith:2014:5E6YP5TR6EUOTUNS6KCV7YXRDZ

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Type-IV Pilus Deformation Can Explain Retraction Behavior

Aloke Kumar, Ashkan Vaziri, Ranajay Ghosh

arxiv:1409.5472 v1 · 2014-09-18 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5E6YP5TR6EUOTUNS6KCV7YXRDZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:01.252874Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e93d87f671f128e9d1b2f2855fe2f11e5a1064bfe112fbfe1010fb1f3bca7c9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5472 · arxiv_version: 1409.5472v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5472 · pith_short_12: 5E6YP5TR6EUO · pith_short_16: 5E6YP5TR6EUOTUNS · pith_short_8: 5E6YP5TR

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/5E6YP5TR6EUOTUNS6KCV7YXRDZ \
  | 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: e93d87f671f128e9d1b2f2855fe2f11e5a1064bfe112fbfe1010fb1f3bca7c9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "984756f89df0cf5e2cd5f85a31afac3e7c56dbdd0ada33ab6b6dab3f09aa6340",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-18T21:51:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f42ad441d730b1be02dc712c27c759afae9e603e6673dd70cdfea6a6221e4a7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}