Pith Number

pith:FKTVPW6N

pith:2026:FKTVPW6N6E2BCYYHGWHO4PL7MN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identity and Self as Physical Signatures of Life in Dictyostelium and Multicellular Systems

Yehuda Roth

arxiv:2607.00923 v1 · 2026-07-01 · physics.bio-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FKTVPW6N6E2BCYYHGWHO4PL7MN}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-02T01:18:23.667238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2aa757dbcdf134116307358eee3d7f635d992f16eea585ab2b0e78f806f1171a

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00923 · arxiv_version: 2607.00923v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00923 · pith_short_12: FKTVPW6N6E2B · pith_short_16: FKTVPW6N6E2BCYYH · pith_short_8: FKTVPW6N

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/FKTVPW6N6E2BCYYHGWHO4PL7MN \
  | 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: 2aa757dbcdf134116307358eee3d7f635d992f16eea585ab2b0e78f806f1171a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0957474a4c3d6412ca07a00fe8d149773f2dc2e93fc97abd2756087db8cad449",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T13:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76203e257d222a78165440df638d14736902b3848c885e296686fadb4eb1a4d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}