Pith Number

pith:5F4BWH4X

pith:2017:5F4BWH4XXX2HQASRMQ6ROZL4LB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Plankton: the paradox and the power law

Gustav W. Delius, Jos\'e A. Cuesta, Richard Law

arxiv:1705.05327 v1 · 2017-05-15 · q-bio.PE · physics.bio-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5F4BWH4XXX2HQASRMQ6ROZL4LB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:44:30.804530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9781b1f97bdf4780251643d17657c58501647120c55d6ef283949de9836388c

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05327 · arxiv_version: 1705.05327v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05327 · pith_short_12: 5F4BWH4XXX2H · pith_short_16: 5F4BWH4XXX2HQASR · pith_short_8: 5F4BWH4X

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/5F4BWH4XXX2HQASRMQ6ROZL4LB \
  | 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: e9781b1f97bdf4780251643d17657c58501647120c55d6ef283949de9836388c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc92d5fc0b981e0cd91bd24ccee5bd3da9afaf8925bc9f6e9e1dadf5e9d481b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-15T16:51:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fee729015262497221e274f86d546bdafd6f67572b335ffcc97fff9735bf2cf8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05327",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}