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pith:LEXNL5VT

pith:2018:LEXNL5VT3LS5BUEQMB7WPP4KJR

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Why large icosahedral viruses need scaffolding proteins: The interplay of Gaussian curvature and disclination interactions

Alex Travesset, Polly Roy, Roya Zandi, Siyu Li

arxiv:1809.01809 v1 · 2018-09-06 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft

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\pithnumber{LEXNL5VT3LS5BUEQMB7WPP4KJR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:21.881281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

592ed5f6b3dae5d0d090607f67bf8a4c66d5006f429009fbfb8cb5657f06ecf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.01809 · arxiv_version: 1809.01809v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.01809 · pith_short_12: LEXNL5VT3LS5 · pith_short_16: LEXNL5VT3LS5BUEQ · pith_short_8: LEXNL5VT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LEXNL5VT3LS5BUEQMB7WPP4KJR \
  | 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: 592ed5f6b3dae5d0d090607f67bf8a4c66d5006f429009fbfb8cb5657f06ecf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "086458ab80ddea4df7f9f87c8d8a9d6b604017d3bf5800199a4da7c8578be8d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-06T03:52:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96699981011d2041699e98eb93b8a13e383c4241dc369fd4db7d39632a01ae41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.01809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}