Pith Number

pith:J6SPOX26

pith:2013:J6SPOX26NM3GH5ACLL6URSQFKV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Genetic information, physical interpreters and thermodynamics; the material-informatic basis of biosemiosis

Peter R. Wills

arxiv:1308.2107 v1 · 2013-08-09 · q-bio.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6SPOX26NM3GH5ACLL6URSQFKV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:18.246045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fa4f75f5e6b3663f4025afd48ca055557cece38c302bd536b829657746ed61f

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.2107 · arxiv_version: 1308.2107v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.2107 · pith_short_12: J6SPOX26NM3G · pith_short_16: J6SPOX26NM3GH5AC · pith_short_8: J6SPOX26

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/J6SPOX26NM3GH5ACLL6URSQFKV \
  | 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: 4fa4f75f5e6b3663f4025afd48ca055557cece38c302bd536b829657746ed61f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6415ba333e51a9f92af4a2c3f5526781c6b177596df8b60028eec7b0aefd502",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-09T12:33:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7a307360bc5e088f8c8ab830202a6e9f95f086b9c99b02b752ff2b9dd9a114f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.2107",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}