Pith Number

pith:KOTLX3LF

pith:2018:KOTLX3LFYTJ62Z3W2BB6BBTTBU

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Swimming of peritrichous bacteria is enabled by an elastohydrodynamic instability

Debasish Das, Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga

arxiv:1806.01902 v1 · 2018-06-05 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KOTLX3LFYTJ62Z3W2BB6BBTTBU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:03.490215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53a6bbed65c4d3ed6776d043e086730d343613082b475f7e2059e15adbf35204

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.01902 · arxiv_version: 1806.01902v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.01902 · pith_short_12: KOTLX3LFYTJ6 · pith_short_16: KOTLX3LFYTJ62Z3W · pith_short_8: KOTLX3LF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KOTLX3LFYTJ62Z3W2BB6BBTTBU \
  | 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: 53a6bbed65c4d3ed6776d043e086730d343613082b475f7e2059e15adbf35204

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9ea7f9304da10e55d2c7b520ae32782884054dac8c87ca46075b12acf4106f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-05T19:24:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "668523927008f6d20d80a7a19d26c91fdf5674c1c1d37a53297223e475ada89d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.01902",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}