Pith Number

pith:C4JBKUU7

pith:2012:C4JBKUU7HSOKHHOKDH7ZXHSQQ3

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A common rule for decision-making in animal collectives across species

Alfonso P\'erez-Escudero, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja, Sara Arganda

arxiv:1206.3108 v3 · 2012-06-14 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

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\pithnumber{C4JBKUU7HSOKHHOKDH7ZXHSQQ3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:43.773467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

171215529f3c9ca39dca19ff9b9e5086da7b00cfffbeb66673755f461146bd1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3108 · arxiv_version: 1206.3108v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3108 · pith_short_12: C4JBKUU7HSOK · pith_short_16: C4JBKUU7HSOKHHOK · pith_short_8: C4JBKUU7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C4JBKUU7HSOKHHOKDH7ZXHSQQ3 \
  | 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: 171215529f3c9ca39dca19ff9b9e5086da7b00cfffbeb66673755f461146bd1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82ad51f1e6adaf61fbeddf3b8a6690a20f972206ed79a217df0c14fff3c6972f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-14T13:57:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0cfc46bc3af3d452caf5522ff1e9d7d8ce8a459ffdeec6ce19b156701256ee61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}