Pith Number

pith:OYFOVCEJ

pith:2016:OYFOVCEJ3BNTAN7D6YCZVCKXWI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Demographic noise can reverse the direction of deterministic selection

Alan J. McKane, Corina E. Tarnita, George W. A. Constable, Tim Rogers

arxiv:1608.03471 v1 · 2016-08-11 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYFOVCEJ3BNTAN7D6YCZVCKXWI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:37.620574Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

760aea8889d85b3037e3f6059a8957b210fba87c28124b6f2c549d10753a3b34

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03471 · arxiv_version: 1608.03471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03471 · pith_short_12: OYFOVCEJ3BNT · pith_short_16: OYFOVCEJ3BNTAN7D · pith_short_8: OYFOVCEJ

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/OYFOVCEJ3BNTAN7D6YCZVCKXWI \
  | 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: 760aea8889d85b3037e3f6059a8957b210fba87c28124b6f2c549d10753a3b34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c620851fe3fe20daa3a86953ccbbdf34f5d5e297c83824f94fa97329cc55dd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-11T14:13:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d23182c081fcec09644c8048d528ed36c36b28709002a96fb3c66253fe8392a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}