Pith Number

pith:7M2TOXZO

pith:2012:7M2TOXZO3PJSD6IIZLOJAWWKTX

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The 'Swiss cheese' instability of bacterial biofilms

Hongchul Jang, Roberto Rusconi, Roman Stocker

arxiv:1210.4426 v1 · 2012-10-15 · physics.bio-ph · physics.flu-dyn · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7M2TOXZO3PJSD6IIZLOJAWWKTX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:06.001611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb35375f2edbd321f908cadc905aca9df08ddeeff75bd834526fb8557f3814da

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4426 · arxiv_version: 1210.4426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4426 · pith_short_12: 7M2TOXZO3PJS · pith_short_16: 7M2TOXZO3PJSD6II · pith_short_8: 7M2TOXZO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7M2TOXZO3PJSD6IIZLOJAWWKTX \
  | 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: fb35375f2edbd321f908cadc905aca9df08ddeeff75bd834526fb8557f3814da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0195cc737cd6e72822c869be98ad8ff2d152a07c6aaf71f723f9aa3b2e0d4b1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.flu-dyn",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-15T19:48:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9af45498beddac594aa1c32daa0c92e4b57d90da0619a7ad2f14b83a64b1464d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}