Pith Number

pith:CJOR7EK6

pith:2014:CJOR7EK6E5JHIQ6AD2OXKL6PCU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reflections on the extinction-explosion dichotomy

Mike Steel

arxiv:1409.4713 v1 · 2014-09-16 · q-bio.PE · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJOR7EK6E5JHIQ6AD2OXKL6PCU}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:42:45.040402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

125d1f915e27527443c01e9d752fcf152a43c94ebd1e054221d3ea7abfe19ecd

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4713 · arxiv_version: 1409.4713v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4713 · pith_short_12: CJOR7EK6E5JH · pith_short_16: CJOR7EK6E5JHIQ6A · pith_short_8: CJOR7EK6

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/CJOR7EK6E5JHIQ6AD2OXKL6PCU \
  | 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: 125d1f915e27527443c01e9d752fcf152a43c94ebd1e054221d3ea7abfe19ecd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c45612a0b50da567d0b06a98e319b523c47721a52f4b98c474d9fa94c198d015",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-16T17:49:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39cdc976c5235ecf3fa286d0c9020eaa6837456678f02e237adec2b014625ca7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}