Pith Number

pith:6GYITKIH

pith:2009:6GYITKIHQ7VV27EH2MPZUAZXTA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Thermodynamic Function of Life

K. Michaelian

arxiv:0907.0040 v2 · 2009-06-30 · physics.gen-ph · physics.ao-ph · q-bio.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6GYITKIHQ7VV27EH2MPZUAZXTA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:57:36.309611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1b089a90787eb5d7c87d31f9a03379805ba73a57cd1833a12f7e9fa639d726e

Aliases

arxiv: 0907.0040 · arxiv_version: 0907.0040v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0907.0040 · pith_short_12: 6GYITKIHQ7VV · pith_short_16: 6GYITKIHQ7VV27EH · pith_short_8: 6GYITKIH

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/6GYITKIHQ7VV27EH2MPZUAZXTA \
  | 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: f1b089a90787eb5d7c87d31f9a03379805ba73a57cd1833a12f7e9fa639d726e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "998565bae4c0dd289861e51d9789389b81a3f7bd92912fb87e0912a46a13e4cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ao-ph",
      "q-bio.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-30T23:56:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5475e2085ce39ff8a5db23d3ff024d5b0c35c5b75b4ce71a496afbccfc7c7c58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0907.0040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}