Pith Number

pith:R3DSBMZZ

pith:2010:R3DSBMZZFQAOFHUYPOKJGKTGTS

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Encapsulation of a polymer by an icosahedral virus

Michael F. Hagan, Oren M. Elrad

arxiv:1006.0459 v2 · 2010-06-02 · q-bio.BM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R3DSBMZZFQAOFHUYPOKJGKTGTS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:05.476891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ec720b3392c00e29e987b94932a669ca391c6eb20f85ad8424a6e0626b46789

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.0459 · arxiv_version: 1006.0459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.0459 · pith_short_12: R3DSBMZZFQAO · pith_short_16: R3DSBMZZFQAOFHUY · pith_short_8: R3DSBMZZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R3DSBMZZFQAOFHUYPOKJGKTGTS \
  | 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: 8ec720b3392c00e29e987b94932a669ca391c6eb20f85ad8424a6e0626b46789

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "440321d3c004551b1621d3905edb208f0b891703fb61429316e4b4d7c1ca402e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.BM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-02T18:06:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bafe10dfe61ecbe592ef4bedcc2e3ec5e8d768c90c4a387d7d5afa2e5302adf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.0459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}