Pith Number

pith:6C5EASZR

pith:2014:6C5EASZRUUFYGYU5MSIA3TO6RD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Myxococcus xanthus gliding motors are elastically coupled to the substrate as predicted by the focal adhesion model of gliding motility

Douglas B. Litwin, Fabian Czerwinski, Heidi B. Kaplan, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Mingzhai Sun, Oleg A. Igoshin, Rajesh Balagam

arxiv:1401.3220 v1 · 2014-01-14 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6C5EASZRUUFYGYU5MSIA3TO6RD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:45:25.699310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0ba404b31a50b83629d64900dcdde88ea1b8d2659d0f1e0b92d8fbb2f31ef58

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.3220 · arxiv_version: 1401.3220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.3220 · pith_short_12: 6C5EASZRUUFY · pith_short_16: 6C5EASZRUUFYGYU5 · pith_short_8: 6C5EASZR

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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/6C5EASZRUUFYGYU5MSIA3TO6RD \
  | 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: f0ba404b31a50b83629d64900dcdde88ea1b8d2659d0f1e0b92d8fbb2f31ef58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ce2a9b00037e52e907148d1aecbdd9ad61a46beaf540f4301392d4a324f475f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-14T15:27:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4abdb2e601fe84aa5e36da742709f13d98f6f0763b1713fb207919dad7f71cfd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.3220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}