Pith Number

pith:PBTXUPOF

pith:2017:PBTXUPOFWWKX4RT3JTDDCCZ2G5

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Can Complex Collective Behaviour Be Generated Through Randomness, Memory and a Pinch of Luck?

Pedro M. F. Pereira

arxiv:1711.11161 v1 · 2017-11-29 · q-bio.PE · nlin.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBTXUPOFWWKX4RT3JTDDCCZ2G5}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:12.307794Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78677a3dc5b5957e467b4cc6310b3a37749d7bde7f3e4acc768e01213887c875

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.11161 · arxiv_version: 1711.11161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.11161 · pith_short_12: PBTXUPOFWWKX · pith_short_16: PBTXUPOFWWKX4RT3 · pith_short_8: PBTXUPOF

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/PBTXUPOFWWKX4RT3JTDDCCZ2G5 \
  | 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: 78677a3dc5b5957e467b4cc6310b3a37749d7bde7f3e4acc768e01213887c875

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4fdcb7c7cf3abdca43cd92da5d05f3baba487fe030054faa2a220683ae487ace",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-29T23:56:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb5976c33a5abf73c700efebffc9c289e53b78ec90c9640d44e13449efdeca74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.11161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}