Pith Number

pith:IAYQ42VQ

pith:2015:IAYQ42VQRWQTZBDH4MABOVJ26E

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Mass Action and Conservation of Current

Bob Eisenberg

arxiv:1502.07251 v5 · 2015-02-25 · q-bio.OT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IAYQ42VQRWQTZBDH4MABOVJ26E}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:32.322331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40310e6ab08da13c8467e30017553af1119bc9af4ad288ee1fe43a3d88aa4ce4

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.07251 · arxiv_version: 1502.07251v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.07251 · pith_short_12: IAYQ42VQRWQT · pith_short_16: IAYQ42VQRWQTZBDH · pith_short_8: IAYQ42VQ

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/IAYQ42VQRWQTZBDH4MABOVJ26E \
  | 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: 40310e6ab08da13c8467e30017553af1119bc9af4ad288ee1fe43a3d88aa4ce4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b11d51f051a4c4bcbac2ad124a66d3e5f5f3552e7fa3fb7cb5eb68c03999e35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-25T19:17:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de7284eef1e420aa46c3fd23f3138292111536b6e84b3e97f26e081ca4a663c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.07251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}