Pith Number

pith:IJY7XK4Y

pith:2021:IJY7XK4YAZHLGTMED22FTKQJHJ

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Signaling receptor localization maximizes cellular information acquisition in spatially-structured, natural environments

Matt Thomson, Zitong Jerry Wang

arxiv:2107.00806 v1 · 2021-07-02 · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IJY7XK4YAZHLGTMED22FTKQJHJ}

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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	2026-07-05T02:54:33.877854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4271fbab98064eb34d841eb459aa093a5bc70d31a9e04a2fb0c77b70ea7620ba

Aliases

arxiv: 2107.00806 · arxiv_version: 2107.00806v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.00806 · pith_short_12: IJY7XK4YAZHL · pith_short_16: IJY7XK4YAZHLGTME · pith_short_8: IJY7XK4Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IJY7XK4YAZHLGTMED22FTKQJHJ \
  | 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: 4271fbab98064eb34d841eb459aa093a5bc70d31a9e04a2fb0c77b70ea7620ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "167436f5853629cdbfd4518d89bd95002a1e63353379d0d6501a5271d9275bcb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-02T02:45:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d3c15c857d954b39d080805ed0e1d28916c54fc07c215d9f0adad55c9ec06a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2107.00806",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}