Pith Number

pith:SZQ3I7RK

pith:2017:SZQ3I7RKDDFEVQYE4YAWM5CVS3

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A self-driven phase transition drives Myxococcus xanthus fruiting body formation

Adam Patch, David Yllanes, Fatmagul Bahar, Guannan Liu, Joshua W. Shaevitz, M. Cristina Marchetti, Roy D. Welch, Shashi Thutupalli

arxiv:1709.06012 v2 · 2017-09-18 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.CB

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\pithnumber{SZQ3I7RKDDFEVQYE4YAWM5CVS3}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:42:49.153669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9661b47e2a18ca4ac304e60166745596cc2f64fe0440d6ccf57846c49d340453

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06012 · arxiv_version: 1709.06012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06012 · pith_short_12: SZQ3I7RKDDFE · pith_short_16: SZQ3I7RKDDFEVQYE · pith_short_8: SZQ3I7RK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SZQ3I7RKDDFEVQYE4YAWM5CVS3 \
  | 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: 9661b47e2a18ca4ac304e60166745596cc2f64fe0440d6ccf57846c49d340453

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e09e0e1bcf3267d0e90d47f4ce00234e4fc9fd6648cb259e7b31d2759a95d7c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-18T15:44:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ac3b83c9b6272982cc49ac5d8c83abb07dec0e0918a82884b294d335d05e330"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}