Pith Number

pith:MABZKGQI

pith:2018:MABZKGQI36ES3CU7AEGMBKOO3I

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Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

Bartlomiej Waclaw, Rosalind J Allen

arxiv:1812.04435 v1 · 2018-12-11 · q-bio.CB · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MABZKGQI36ES3CU7AEGMBKOO3I}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:01.307700Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6003951a08df892d8a9f010cc0a9ceda37e52e56d78bff002ce4e0377a9a7241

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04435 · arxiv_version: 1812.04435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04435 · pith_short_12: MABZKGQI36ES · pith_short_16: MABZKGQI36ES3CU7 · pith_short_8: MABZKGQI

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/MABZKGQI36ES3CU7AEGMBKOO3I \
  | 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: 6003951a08df892d8a9f010cc0a9ceda37e52e56d78bff002ce4e0377a9a7241

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e9f565188fe53d19a4d915d37fce6e77942c06da11131e85e72f62a34d68d18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-11T14:38:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53ab812907c2ff45ed4bd54c5b09706b04ddee725214c7c9c965de60b5c6a4cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}