Pith Number

pith:I7GQ7ZH6

pith:2026:I7GQ7ZH6BXWASWWWR4E2EKGOU4

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Rethinking the Choice Behavior of Sugar Metabolism in Bacteria

Jeffrey D. Varner

arxiv:2607.07677 v1 · 2026-07-08 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7GQ7ZH6BXWASWWWR4E2EKGOU4}

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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	2026-07-09T01:20:38.863165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47cd0fe4fe0dec095ad68f09a228cea71a16ffb7bf8bc5ea4f510127b4c986ba

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07677 · arxiv_version: 2607.07677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07677 · pith_short_12: I7GQ7ZH6BXWA · pith_short_16: I7GQ7ZH6BXWASWWW · pith_short_8: I7GQ7ZH6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I7GQ7ZH6BXWASWWWR4E2EKGOU4 \
  | 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: 47cd0fe4fe0dec095ad68f09a228cea71a16ffb7bf8bc5ea4f510127b4c986ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e14176e2ff98ccb1c5cd79305c9e6cd7b80962aa093457024dbd1dee12309356",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.MN"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T17:36:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8603f5a6e0b6ba67102f361e8c70b10bc6ddf399bc170daa218946cddc3ebbf5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}