Pith Number

pith:C6ZJ5VC3

pith:2011:C6ZJ5VC3CMDK2TMNPPEBGKCZCG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to take turns: the fly's way to encode and decode rotational information

Ingrid M. Esteves, Nelson M. Fernandes, Roland K\"oberle

arxiv:1103.0451 v1 · 2011-03-02 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6ZJ5VC3CMDK2TMNPPEBGKCZCG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:34.866904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17b29ed45b1306ad4d8d7bc813285911a759d9133925c459b794c91847581825

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.0451 · arxiv_version: 1103.0451v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.0451 · pith_short_12: C6ZJ5VC3CMDK · pith_short_16: C6ZJ5VC3CMDK2TMN · pith_short_8: C6ZJ5VC3

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/C6ZJ5VC3CMDK2TMNPPEBGKCZCG \
  | 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: 17b29ed45b1306ad4d8d7bc813285911a759d9133925c459b794c91847581825

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7274501489300a909781d6b613eb93af7d14b2cba6a29fc6c425f21c89353828",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-02T15:11:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c950d77263454878db16bc4c833811f6a5ccd4ecec2cd37cac424d81671037c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.0451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}