Pith Number

pith:PV2GBBLG

pith:2008:PV2GBBLG26AZZAZXRHBKZ4HTID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Survival benefits in mimicry: a quantitative framework

Alexey Mikaberidze, Masudul Haque

arxiv:0809.0391 v1 · 2008-09-02 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PV2GBBLG26AZZAZXRHBKZ4HTID}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T04:16:10.878115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d74608566d7819c833789c2acf0f340d1a47eb3d88c66c9354fb1ec7e67e68a

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.0391 · arxiv_version: 0809.0391v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.0391 · pith_short_12: PV2GBBLG26AZ · pith_short_16: PV2GBBLG26AZZAZX · pith_short_8: PV2GBBLG

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/PV2GBBLG26AZZAZXRHBKZ4HTID \
  | 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: 7d74608566d7819c833789c2acf0f340d1a47eb3d88c66c9354fb1ec7e67e68a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74bb32e21cf884080191812331aba994be285c11a2f8b93c513868390ccb77fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-02T10:19:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c9fdb67b982bd72dd0f83c0ac99985f89a8e319c36542c60f4bab5adf703e95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.0391",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}