Pith Number

pith:CEQCBQ5K

pith:2012:CEQCBQ5KFYFQQTVNJ7RZ6BUBNX

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Sensing and decision-making in random search

Andrew M. Hein, Scott A. McKinley

arxiv:1202.3384 v1 · 2012-02-15 · q-bio.PE · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CEQCBQ5KFYFQQTVNJ7RZ6BUBNX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:27.968687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

112020c3aa2e0b084ead4fe39f06816dc0bcc646a8db3901b13071f447dca438

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3384 · arxiv_version: 1202.3384v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3384 · pith_short_12: CEQCBQ5KFYFQ · pith_short_16: CEQCBQ5KFYFQQTVN · pith_short_8: CEQCBQ5K

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/CEQCBQ5KFYFQQTVNJ7RZ6BUBNX \
  | 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: 112020c3aa2e0b084ead4fe39f06816dc0bcc646a8db3901b13071f447dca438

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30236c265c4ff27fa7c42940debe0df085213aaa3687e702744d1cbf7e98d280",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-15T17:42:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94f5ac15cd69019286e605227c9bae0224254ff169614588a1fb686a27a6aca8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}