Pith Number

pith:OGC5NRAS

pith:1998:OGC5NRASIRWONFDX75CFHO3YJE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Electrostatic Edge Instability of Lipid Membranes

Harvard University), M. D. Betterton (Physics Department, Michael P. Brenner (Math Department, MIT)

arxiv:physics/9812033 v1 · 1998-12-17 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · nlin.PS · patt-sol · q-bio.BM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OGC5NRASIRWONFDX75CFHO3YJE}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:08:35.206634Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7185d6c412446ce69477ff4453bb78492772fdc648b56147ec511ec96a2716ac

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9812033 · arxiv_version: physics/9812033v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9812033 · pith_short_12: OGC5NRASIRWO · pith_short_16: OGC5NRASIRWONFDX · pith_short_8: OGC5NRAS

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/OGC5NRASIRWONFDX75CFHO3YJE \
  | 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: 7185d6c412446ce69477ff4453bb78492772fdc648b56147ec511ec96a2716ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ed7b54de2ed905d33a525d984c79c07a8d1ebd13075275af5521cc0859bbe90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "nlin.PS",
      "patt-sol",
      "q-bio.BM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-17T20:21:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5af730bd97a4255cf177d2bf8ccb5fa4717f7323129f207279927548d6dc17c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9812033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}