Pith Number

pith:RS5TMZUU

pith:2017:RS5TMZUU22L3PA5NNZONU4IEB3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Life in the coffee-ring: how evaporation-driven density gradients dictate the outcome of inter-bacterial competition

Arben Kalziqi, Brian K. Hammer, David Yanni, Jacob Thomas, Peter J. Yunker, Siu Lung Ng, Skanda Vivek, William C. Ratcliff

arxiv:1707.03472 v1 · 2017-07-11 · cond-mat.soft · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.CB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RS5TMZUU22L3PA5NNZONU4IEB3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:40:25.909356Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cbb366694d697b783ad6e5cda71040edc01fa2d6cf6e488fc1d59061cdec8f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.03472 · arxiv_version: 1707.03472v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.03472 · pith_short_12: RS5TMZUU22L3 · pith_short_16: RS5TMZUU22L3PA5N · pith_short_8: RS5TMZUU

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/RS5TMZUU22L3PA5NNZONU4IEB3 \
  | 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: 8cbb366694d697b783ad6e5cda71040edc01fa2d6cf6e488fc1d59061cdec8f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b344124f095974bef0f91044f76af3a8b618002532ae8f61811661691f67c898",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-11T21:50:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "511e81f1cf9caf15c1dab1201815da043c5764f28eb836bbab94f71eecab55e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.03472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}