Pith Number

pith:IULQD3KQ

pith:2005:IULQD3KQANJE7SOTCC3P6S7C6W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection

Liane Gabora

arxiv:nlin/0512025 v3 · 2005-12-10 · nlin.AO · q-bio.MN · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IULQD3KQANJE7SOTCC3P6S7C6W}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:15:07.702744Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

451701ed5003524fc9d310b6ff4be2f59ca9fe3b8b16a53a6a8cfc8845ae6fdb

Aliases

arxiv: nlin/0512025 · arxiv_version: nlin/0512025v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0512025 · pith_short_12: IULQD3KQANJE · pith_short_16: IULQD3KQANJE7SOT · pith_short_8: IULQD3KQ

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/IULQD3KQANJE7SOTCC3P6S7C6W \
  | 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: 451701ed5003524fc9d310b6ff4be2f59ca9fe3b8b16a53a6a8cfc8845ae6fdb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05b8a01348c3edf6ce41eb90af029ca39743add8d72b58ac2eb3eb0a3917336c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.MN",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-10T21:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb8d22acafbea5e63a79238565164b4d8e2c547dbf622531f6002769c0e2b56b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "nlin/0512025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}