Pith Number

pith:IQ5ITEMY

pith:2009:IQ5ITEMYEBOXC5K2VLPXXYMDOV

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Making it possible: constructing a reliable mechanism from a finite trajectory

Ophir Flomenbom

arxiv:0912.3952 v3 · 2009-12-20 · q-bio.QM · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IQ5ITEMYEBOXC5K2VLPXXYMDOV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:45.370170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

443a899198205d71755aaadf7be1837547165098fcdb5e8986de6e0cf64e761e

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.3952 · arxiv_version: 0912.3952v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.3952 · pith_short_12: IQ5ITEMYEBOX · pith_short_16: IQ5ITEMYEBOXC5K2 · pith_short_8: IQ5ITEMY

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/IQ5ITEMYEBOXC5K2VLPXXYMDOV \
  | 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: 443a899198205d71755aaadf7be1837547165098fcdb5e8986de6e0cf64e761e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80a1e4d8b925555bf72a73df98b507a884c40c38b5bbd5563f4d89b15cf02d0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-20T01:37:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a4da681cc1fb6ded82b9bc53547b3392432fcc385e2dafb3f9ccaaadffff9e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.3952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}