Pith Number

pith:5Q4JGWUB

pith:2017:5Q4JGWUB2EXT4WMQOZUYT75ZQD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do cells sense time by number of divisions?

David Holcman, Kimsy Tor, Zeev Schuss

arxiv:1711.04266 v1 · 2017-11-12 · q-bio.SC · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Q4JGWUB2EXT4WMQOZUYT75ZQD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:39.552868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec38935a81d12f3e5990766989ffb980e556120ec47aca8d40081aa039c62312

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04266 · arxiv_version: 1711.04266v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04266 · pith_short_12: 5Q4JGWUB2EXT · pith_short_16: 5Q4JGWUB2EXT4WMQ · pith_short_8: 5Q4JGWUB

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/5Q4JGWUB2EXT4WMQOZUYT75ZQD \
  | 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: ec38935a81d12f3e5990766989ffb980e556120ec47aca8d40081aa039c62312

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88d9561c2c49db5769cc4237391b8ba6db8619822b9809b270c2eef7eef041e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-12T10:38:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95f0be88d9b3c471c0cfeff8e8e1b18d8295cfd4432505de4fb2d90acc6de4ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04266",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}