Pith Number

pith:AFYIGZR4

pith:2015:AFYIGZR43AJIINMZRTDP73ACGH

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Balls, cups, and quasi-potentials: quantifying stability in stochastic systems

Ben C. Nolting, Karen C. Abbott

arxiv:1508.02088 v3 · 2015-08-09 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFYIGZR43AJIINMZRTDP73ACGH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:29.281125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017083663cd8128435998cc6ffec0231c226304447da68ccaf6be07cb51305ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02088 · arxiv_version: 1508.02088v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02088 · pith_short_12: AFYIGZR43AJI · pith_short_16: AFYIGZR43AJIINMZ · pith_short_8: AFYIGZR4

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/AFYIGZR43AJIINMZRTDP73ACGH \
  | 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: 017083663cd8128435998cc6ffec0231c226304447da68ccaf6be07cb51305ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38392a76f678f0006ace2ea58f392919de8c9233b6d0e24188eb9c9f8e16c4e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-09T21:52:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74ef56f234f3ca2490c1dd9e004e1c0cfaa44e9973ed76f098568912fd1f2e73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}