Pith Number

pith:Q6SZDS2F

pith:2012:Q6SZDS2FVQIEVVJG554UTA2ZT4

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Physical descriptions of the bacterial nucleoid at large scales, and their biological implications

Bruno Bassetti, Kevin D. Dorfman, Krystyna Bromek, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Pietro Cicuta, Vincenzo G. Benza, Vittore F. Scolari

arxiv:1204.3518 v3 · 2012-04-16 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q6SZDS2FVQIEVVJG554UTA2ZT4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:51.991946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87a591cb45ac104ad526ef794983599f112fed316e5b54234d90024eaf5a9586

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.3518 · arxiv_version: 1204.3518v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.3518 · pith_short_12: Q6SZDS2FVQIE · pith_short_16: Q6SZDS2FVQIEVVJG · pith_short_8: Q6SZDS2F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6SZDS2FVQIEVVJG554UTA2ZT4 \
  | 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: 87a591cb45ac104ad526ef794983599f112fed316e5b54234d90024eaf5a9586

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e44a1dcdd785fb6137d61b6b6220b799019a44d597befbe8be837526729fb2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-16T15:18:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b726f32eac4efe72251872088bbee57ad3c48f6ea5814b0996bdbb25d4c0bf8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.3518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}