Pith Number

pith:B5RHJRX7

pith:2013:B5RHJRX7LUPY73LVDETHHFAOXW

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Optimizing snake locomotion on an inclined plane

Matthew T. Osborne, Silas Alben, Xiaolin Wang

arxiv:1310.5668 v1 · 2013-10-18 · physics.bio-ph · math.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5RHJRX7LUPY73LVDETHHFAOXW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:46:56.772941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f6274c6ff5d1f8fed75192673940ebd8572214cd0b101c64f5d44aa2a1ba1b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.5668 · arxiv_version: 1310.5668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.5668 · pith_short_12: B5RHJRX7LUPY · pith_short_16: B5RHJRX7LUPY73LV · pith_short_8: B5RHJRX7

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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/B5RHJRX7LUPY73LVDETHHFAOXW \
  | 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: 0f6274c6ff5d1f8fed75192673940ebd8572214cd0b101c64f5d44aa2a1ba1b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d51fb668cf2c8401a0add5186c3f765e620d7b7f6c8d86d4783bdf5967e160c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-18T17:59:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1455fc3d73d3d3c82c13ebd3cd4488fddac0ca34c1727802cff88ac896ac5312"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.5668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}