Pith Number

pith:ELVKQGX6

pith:2013:ELVKQGX6A6NJNILWLKTQWDFK4J

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Starling flock networks manage uncertainty in consensus at low cost

Andrea Cavagna, George Forrest Young, Irene Giardina, Luca Scardovi, Naomi Ehrich Leonard

arxiv:1302.3195 v1 · 2013-02-13 · q-bio.PE · nlin.AO · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ELVKQGX6A6NJNILWLKTQWDFK4J}

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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	2026-05-18T03:33:48.425564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22eaa81afe079a96a1765aa70b0caae26a1bfd502dffb5f11be83b550c98459c

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.3195 · arxiv_version: 1302.3195v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.3195 · pith_short_12: ELVKQGX6A6NJ · pith_short_16: ELVKQGX6A6NJNILW · pith_short_8: ELVKQGX6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ELVKQGX6A6NJNILWLKTQWDFK4J \
  | 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: 22eaa81afe079a96a1765aa70b0caae26a1bfd502dffb5f11be83b550c98459c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b223f8782d372a69e97f44c1b731ca27e2fb6dc7a8bdbe9b8246a64074e5ce03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-13T19:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad39951fd5713e3304ab1bc2bb6fa1cc12acdce58556b15e457bd7e3dda49268"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.3195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}