Pith Number

pith:IS5RZ2M2

pith:2016:IS5RZ2M2OFCNR6D3LSPBOPNXCQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bacterial cartels at steady supply

Anna Posfai, Ned S. Wingreen, Thibaud Taillefumier, Yigal Meir

arxiv:1604.02733 v1 · 2016-04-10 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.MN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IS5RZ2M2OFCNR6D3LSPBOPNXCQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:22.270924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44bb1ce99a7144d8f87b5c9e173db714285c14c00cb4df0a8ea3c17a7fe438e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.02733 · arxiv_version: 1604.02733v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.02733 · pith_short_12: IS5RZ2M2OFCN · pith_short_16: IS5RZ2M2OFCNR6D3 · pith_short_8: IS5RZ2M2

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/IS5RZ2M2OFCNR6D3LSPBOPNXCQ \
  | 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: 44bb1ce99a7144d8f87b5c9e173db714285c14c00cb4df0a8ea3c17a7fe438e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a5e3835f23686c81a30b7f476e97f2e9c2879c2bab060c22b70f4c90f3eaf1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.MN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-10T21:01:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b045d64877fb3e09a68813abb244fafb63e0bdfdfb4c1d0858b4fdb88f1cecdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.02733",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}