Pith Number

pith:P3QPUSZO

pith:2017:P3QPUSZOXSTHARDG2ZGJDV63BM

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Dynamics and locomotion of flexible foils in a frictional environment

Silas Alben, Xiaolin Wang

arxiv:1708.01827 v1 · 2017-08-06 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P3QPUSZOXSTHARDG2ZGJDV63BM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:16.796907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ee0fa4b2ebca6704466d64c91d7db0b238fcd95845b8120f49e7fb38082f763

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01827 · arxiv_version: 1708.01827v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01827 · pith_short_12: P3QPUSZOXSTH · pith_short_16: P3QPUSZOXSTHARDG · pith_short_8: P3QPUSZO

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/P3QPUSZOXSTHARDG2ZGJDV63BM \
  | 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: 7ee0fa4b2ebca6704466d64c91d7db0b238fcd95845b8120f49e7fb38082f763

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4a5b340601842ea5606214e2bacd40a69fdb7a1dcd13779eb1432e92f349eda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-06T00:50:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b21a1abbaa0ba95131b5060b4d414c215649acf1b77bd7a7542a40acde1629b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}