Pith Number

pith:EZYSXYUG

pith:1998:EZYSXYUGCVQALQ2EE2GH5IGSWE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Studies of Bacterial Branching Growth using Reaction-Diffusion Models for Colonial Development

Eshel Ben-Jacob, Ido Golding, Inon Cohen, Yonathan Kozlovsky

arxiv:cond-mat/9807088 v1 · 1998-07-06 · cond-mat · nlin.PS · patt-sol · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EZYSXYUGCVQALQ2EE2GH5IGSWE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:39:30.312185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26712be286156005c344268c7ea0d2b134221c043841390b1070872da91d3f69

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9807088 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9807088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9807088 · pith_short_12: EZYSXYUGCVQA · pith_short_16: EZYSXYUGCVQALQ2E · pith_short_8: EZYSXYUG

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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/EZYSXYUGCVQALQ2EE2GH5IGSWE \
  | 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: 26712be286156005c344268c7ea0d2b134221c043841390b1070872da91d3f69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff873e7f12b1414b2f9166ca05bba1650bf4f063104f628b157c0807b36a2f3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.PS",
      "patt-sol",
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-06T13:18:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a0c955dd622a21a024fddeea0c459f80f990cd12965a42f2a09219f437fa1cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9807088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}