Pith Number

pith:QEY2T5XR

pith:2017:QEY2T5XRPV3ZXOIGANUZCKVPKA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Slime mould: the fundamental mechanisms of cognition

Andrew Adamatzky, Audrey Dussutour, Frantisek Baluska, Hector Zenil, Jordi Vallverdu, Max Talanov, Michael Levin, Oscar Castro, Richard Mayne, Yukio Gunji

arxiv:1712.00414 v1 · 2017-12-01 · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QEY2T5XRPV3ZXOIGANUZCKVPKA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:06.286204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8131a9f6f17d779bb9060369912aaf503329c6d30c544a771551843eaaed6833

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00414 · arxiv_version: 1712.00414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00414 · pith_short_12: QEY2T5XRPV3Z · pith_short_16: QEY2T5XRPV3ZXOIG · pith_short_8: QEY2T5XR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QEY2T5XRPV3ZXOIGANUZCKVPKA \
  | 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: 8131a9f6f17d779bb9060369912aaf503329c6d30c544a771551843eaaed6833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffd8fada2a38ff12659557f0d362c1ee22d3a1695e50f51bd97fa6771a365e31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T17:23:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54e78acf1e57b982c26ec3368a330dcb881b8921679e355a4f967dc0845b3643"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}