Pith Number

pith:FW3Q4RWH

pith:2010:FW3Q4RWHZJ2EWAJ5XAYXRVXPR3

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Pearling in cells: A clue to understanding cell shape

Alexander Bershadsky, Elisha Moses, Roy Bar-Ziv, Samuel A. Safran, Tsvi Tlusty

arxiv:1008.0953 v1 · 2010-08-05 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FW3Q4RWHZJ2EWAJ5XAYXRVXPR3}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T04:42:34.883252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2db70e46c7ca744b013db83178d6ef8ee9015cf6d5af83ff508fd9bfcb3c3dd6

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.0953 · arxiv_version: 1008.0953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.0953 · pith_short_12: FW3Q4RWHZJ2E · pith_short_16: FW3Q4RWHZJ2EWAJ5 · pith_short_8: FW3Q4RWH

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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/FW3Q4RWHZJ2EWAJ5XAYXRVXPR3 \
  | 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: 2db70e46c7ca744b013db83178d6ef8ee9015cf6d5af83ff508fd9bfcb3c3dd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb627c289a32c0d27a5f9307320da39e9704b644d0c1db3e876e380bff33aa8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-05T11:46:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b541486433681006747ae74ca23bce5f328246e8ad90d300c940c149d8f295fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.0953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}