Pith Number

pith:5ROJF6LN

pith:2010:5ROJF6LNRQOPU4WWVHQOGHRL7M

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Program Size and Temperature in Self-Assembly

David Doty, Ho-Lin Chen, Shinnosuke Seki

arxiv:1011.3493 v2 · 2010-11-15 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ROJF6LNRQOPU4WWVHQOGHRL7M}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:36.608330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec5c92f96d8c1cfa72d6a9e0e31e2bfb160a34b878ad8bd1275c2d09b19da388

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.3493 · arxiv_version: 1011.3493v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.3493 · pith_short_12: 5ROJF6LNRQOP · pith_short_16: 5ROJF6LNRQOPU4WW · pith_short_8: 5ROJF6LN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5ROJF6LNRQOPU4WWVHQOGHRL7M \
  | 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: ec5c92f96d8c1cfa72d6a9e0e31e2bfb160a34b878ad8bd1275c2d09b19da388

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6afaf216c66506544c554479c7c897fb39a6602453065ad3ec0c2f70c697128",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-15T20:22:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68bd17fa44e5c80ca4620455ebed76a92603be729921cda6ed3c2149de4fe750"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.3493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}