Pith Number

pith:C4AZPR7D

pith:2012:C4AZPR7DWSDEL4CDHT2NWKCLQD

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Positive feedback produces broad distributions in maximum activation attained within a narrow time window in stochastic biochemical reactions

Jayajit Das

arxiv:1212.1715 v1 · 2012-12-08 · q-bio.MN · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C4AZPR7DWSDEL4CDHT2NWKCLQD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:46.367061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

170197c7e3b48645f0433cf4db284b80c9d42156a9f492f88e6c540e35f21cb1

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1715 · arxiv_version: 1212.1715v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1715 · pith_short_12: C4AZPR7DWSDE · pith_short_16: C4AZPR7DWSDEL4CD · pith_short_8: C4AZPR7D

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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/C4AZPR7DWSDEL4CDHT2NWKCLQD \
  | 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: 170197c7e3b48645f0433cf4db284b80c9d42156a9f492f88e6c540e35f21cb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b6b39bd4a5d2fb3df5ad001a70467f7063d77c93db9a8002899711d1613e521",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-08T19:53:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62169c435c0677366050a8292ca2ddff433a692ea0ede4385d2b1967414967d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}