Pith Number

pith:BHVIYBVB

pith:2017:BHVIYBVBI3WA77BOP6TXVATUGM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolutionary advantage of directional symmetry breaking in self-replicating polymers

Hemachander Subramanian, Robert A. Gatenby

arxiv:1708.02667 v1 · 2017-08-08 · q-bio.BM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BHVIYBVBI3WA77BOP6TXVATUGM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:19.982235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09ea8c06a146ec0ffc2e7fa77a8274331e28e345bbbaf758bafb6fe46cedcdd6

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02667 · arxiv_version: 1708.02667v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02667 · pith_short_12: BHVIYBVBI3WA · pith_short_16: BHVIYBVBI3WA77BO · pith_short_8: BHVIYBVB

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/BHVIYBVBI3WA77BOP6TXVATUGM \
  | 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: 09ea8c06a146ec0ffc2e7fa77a8274331e28e345bbbaf758bafb6fe46cedcdd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "247ece2450e788cbd34fe8b6b5e57e79734b3fc392afb372067e597a518fb069",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.BM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T22:37:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f23f4a5851387e887a1dd7224afeadc5b87713d1616f98acc60b5eb2cffdaf5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02667",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}