Pith Number

pith:KWLKAXND

pith:2017:KWLKAXND4WB5D76YEVUGM5C6M2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Origin of life in a digital microcosm

Arend Hintze, Christoph Adami (Michigan State University), Nitash C G, Thomas LaBar

arxiv:1701.03993 v1 · 2017-01-15 · q-bio.PE · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.AO · q-bio.MN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KWLKAXND4WB5D76YEVUGM5C6M2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:52:48.176830Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5596a05da3e583d1ffd8256866745e66b63ba7c2ceca7dac908d3ba7095de197

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03993 · arxiv_version: 1701.03993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03993 · pith_short_12: KWLKAXND4WB5 · pith_short_16: KWLKAXND4WB5D76Y · pith_short_8: KWLKAXND

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/KWLKAXND4WB5D76YEVUGM5C6M2 \
  | 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: 5596a05da3e583d1ffd8256866745e66b63ba7c2ceca7dac908d3ba7095de197

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7007ae55caccc051444d9b53626323376a45b97f90997439a91fda22c1dc6a93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.AO",
      "q-bio.MN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-15T05:26:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bed4085bfdeda8efecd8f2158d88d541d1d312227651eb11d0cfeae7160a0df1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}