Pith Number

pith:AL72ROET

pith:2016:AL72ROETCFLTQ2JJXAFPAC2OP7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fundamental costs in the production and destruction of persistent polymer copies

Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Thomas E. Ouldridge

arxiv:1609.05554 v2 · 2016-09-18 · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AL72ROETCFLTQ2JJXAFPAC2OP7}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:08.980781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02ffa8b8931157386929b80af00b4e7fc67a5c9afb5c0f6f87c9d3fa01d7e4c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.05554 · arxiv_version: 1609.05554v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.05554 · pith_short_12: AL72ROETCFLT · pith_short_16: AL72ROETCFLTQ2JJ · pith_short_8: AL72ROET

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AL72ROETCFLTQ2JJXAFPAC2OP7 \
  | 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: 02ffa8b8931157386929b80af00b4e7fc67a5c9afb5c0f6f87c9d3fa01d7e4c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "035ca6772a16e3ca7cc65e4579bae7e1411d27425e70f4bffbe2820a8ee1ed46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.MN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-18T21:24:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "250911d4bdb6821d394b083ec091ae96de5d463e1263df947f518ca6caba1dd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.05554",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}