Pith Number

pith:AAKHVIUK

pith:2013:AAKHVIUKKNTY52SHIJ5536W2T3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Maintenance of Sex: Ronald Fisher meets the Red Queen

Chris Mason, David Green

arxiv:1304.2823 v2 · 2013-04-10 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AAKHVIUKKNTY52SHIJ5536W2T3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:27:22.488214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00147aa28a53678eea47427bddfada9ed3c7c5d7e76e324e6770393532577997

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.2823 · arxiv_version: 1304.2823v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.2823 · pith_short_12: AAKHVIUKKNTY · pith_short_16: AAKHVIUKKNTY52SH · pith_short_8: AAKHVIUK

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/AAKHVIUKKNTY52SHIJ5536W2T3 \
  | 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: 00147aa28a53678eea47427bddfada9ed3c7c5d7e76e324e6770393532577997

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "316307da1b9ff0abc0fe61f06cfff6c2b7709e04f2f7318f35730a4d53895af5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-10T01:23:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e4989c406179a4ba7d3be3399180ed6ca7c8a7e965b0264675edf083453e7db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.2823",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}