Pith Number

pith:6MBQDUCC

pith:2018:6MBQDUCCLCC3CADV74ZW2NIUGD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spatial Awareness of a Bacterial Swarm

Amith Zafal, Ayushi Mishra, Harshitha S. Kotian, Manoj M. Varma, Shalini Harkar, Shubham Joge, Varsha Singh

arxiv:1806.02995 v1 · 2018-06-08 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MBQDUCCLCC3CADV74ZW2NIUGD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:50.306119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f30301d0425885b10075ff336d351430c81949a40b8cbddf28ceb4c9d9d55dba

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.02995 · arxiv_version: 1806.02995v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02995 · pith_short_12: 6MBQDUCCLCC3 · pith_short_16: 6MBQDUCCLCC3CADV · pith_short_8: 6MBQDUCC

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/6MBQDUCCLCC3CADV74ZW2NIUGD \
  | 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: f30301d0425885b10075ff336d351430c81949a40b8cbddf28ceb4c9d9d55dba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01ee8013720274ac34b1908424203d0217b03602c5c3b70a2c5ae202fab98d21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-08T07:25:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5694aebad8e8a72b7240a2e3d48a3eee1f8fca3136f80ecaaa96875fb8398b83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.02995",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}