Pith Number

pith:BJDYDW4Z

pith:2014:BJDYDW4Z4H3WRF6EXFAWERBWUV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Catalytic Buffering for Optimal Scheduling of Self-Replication

Rami Pugatch

arxiv:1409.5182 v1 · 2014-09-18 · q-bio.MN

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJDYDW4Z4H3WRF6EXFAWERBWUV}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:42:30.681340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a4781db99e1f76897c4b941624436a576a4c61cea76f0c7e6b4174571bafa95

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5182 · arxiv_version: 1409.5182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5182 · pith_short_12: BJDYDW4Z4H3W · pith_short_16: BJDYDW4Z4H3WRF6E · pith_short_8: BJDYDW4Z

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/BJDYDW4Z4H3WRF6EXFAWERBWUV \
  | 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: 0a4781db99e1f76897c4b941624436a576a4c61cea76f0c7e6b4174571bafa95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1947b8fdb481a53b06ff5a0179d3b6043530d254beba7a8b782c9d4c046c2ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-18T03:24:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9aeabea9e510fb0fd70b6be5094d813be29a0f3f45190b1b8a20e8dbb1b426dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}