Pith Number

pith:J4LGGFP5

pith:2017:J4LGGFP5FLZIQ2TAZ5W2FJZVQB

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Spreading of non-motile bacteria on a hard agar plate: Comparison between agent-based and stochastic simulations

Navdeep Rana, Prasad Perlekar, Pushpita Ghosh

arxiv:1706.05186 v2 · 2017-06-16 · physics.comp-ph · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.CB

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\pithnumber{J4LGGFP5FLZIQ2TAZ5W2FJZVQB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:44.378230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f166315fd2af2886a60cf6da2a7358057f79d6dfa810e3dfbca5f0f10b0ce91

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05186 · arxiv_version: 1706.05186v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05186 · pith_short_12: J4LGGFP5FLZI · pith_short_16: J4LGGFP5FLZIQ2TA · pith_short_8: J4LGGFP5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J4LGGFP5FLZIQ2TAZ5W2FJZVQB \
  | 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: 4f166315fd2af2886a60cf6da2a7358057f79d6dfa810e3dfbca5f0f10b0ce91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63fe3d8bd70792b52b51db7d9ce9ec63f9ba9fd5af626530b79d65f6b1978feb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T08:58:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d6cd922baaf43f88ce5e05a6abf1f9d483d5771a5c11e5452dad9f56ba604c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}