Pith Number

pith:IVMF5MO5

pith:2016:IVMF5MO5CKVEZGZ6M574BY6THG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Redundancy in the information transmission in a two-step cascade

Ayan Biswas, Suman K Banik

arxiv:1601.05519 v3 · 2016-01-21 · q-bio.MN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IVMF5MO5CKVEZGZ6M574BY6THG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:49.118372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45585eb1dd12aa4c9b3e677fc0e3d3399200bb892ba32826b36cfa5b5d90f2e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.05519 · arxiv_version: 1601.05519v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.05519 · pith_short_12: IVMF5MO5CKVE · pith_short_16: IVMF5MO5CKVEZGZ6 · pith_short_8: IVMF5MO5

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/IVMF5MO5CKVEZGZ6M574BY6THG \
  | 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: 45585eb1dd12aa4c9b3e677fc0e3d3399200bb892ba32826b36cfa5b5d90f2e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4e28adb893a18dd7594ef56ad71008ee298e0005d442cd232e924032fbc1f98",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-21T05:49:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed6b0d344e6d4a2b884863155c98ed0cf351a8f1705b6b73e5fe88802c3587dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.05519",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}