Pith Number

pith:C6XMS4BW

pith:2018:C6XMS4BWI4VSCSHAGJFMNTURCS

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Eshel Ben-Jacob: A unique individual in the science of collective phenomena

Herbert Levine

arxiv:1803.06699 v1 · 2018-03-18 · q-bio.OT · q-bio.CB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6XMS4BWI4VSCSHAGJFMNTURCS}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:45.227933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17aec97036472b2148e0324ac6ce9114b4984b5f19acd9326d2d183468781915

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06699 · arxiv_version: 1803.06699v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06699 · pith_short_12: C6XMS4BWI4VS · pith_short_16: C6XMS4BWI4VSCSHA · pith_short_8: C6XMS4BW

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/C6XMS4BWI4VSCSHAGJFMNTURCS \
  | 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: 17aec97036472b2148e0324ac6ce9114b4984b5f19acd9326d2d183468781915

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b4598a8807059af56772824355ffd1a0b04bca923f4b9f0c74159f26fe88534",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-18T17:30:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e31a0504cdb824cba779d16b8b317e9c25a006eff49a16659b54a0f70ae4b633"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}