Pith Number

pith:5KZZ6LLG

pith:2013:5KZZ6LLGUNQVJKTRA3MSSUN5KG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Cell-Level Mechanism of Contrast Gain Control

Geoff K. Nicholls, Linus J. Schumacher

arxiv:1310.5968 v1 · 2013-10-22 · q-bio.NC · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KZZ6LLGUNQVJKTRA3MSSUN5KG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:09:23.741922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eab39f2d66a36154aa7106d92951bd51a3ee62867be660f7c7db952e5f683777

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.5968 · arxiv_version: 1310.5968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.5968 · pith_short_12: 5KZZ6LLGUNQV · pith_short_16: 5KZZ6LLGUNQVJKTR · pith_short_8: 5KZZ6LLG

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/5KZZ6LLGUNQVJKTRA3MSSUN5KG \
  | 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: eab39f2d66a36154aa7106d92951bd51a3ee62867be660f7c7db952e5f683777

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aea73962be5e30ec8c579db212d6600ddbcbaa163b2de437e2cc881e1e609246",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-22T15:53:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a6d784b6d96807f05d8fbb9a1dc05a71bbe15aa1c0ebc3314329dbee0e77631"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.5968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}