Pith Number

pith:UICS5RHD

pith:2012:UICS5RHDKET27XEQXEUDSCHFN6

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A formal model of autocatalytic sets emerging in an RNA replicator system

Mike Steel, Wim Hordijk

arxiv:1211.3473 v1 · 2012-11-15 · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UICS5RHDKET27XEQXEUDSCHFN6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:48.644810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2052ec4e35127afdc90b9283908e56f898f434b4a51805e3f801ba4ec39f3eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3473 · arxiv_version: 1211.3473v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3473 · pith_short_12: UICS5RHDKET2 · pith_short_16: UICS5RHDKET27XEQ · pith_short_8: UICS5RHD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UICS5RHDKET27XEQXEUDSCHFN6 \
  | 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: a2052ec4e35127afdc90b9283908e56f898f434b4a51805e3f801ba4ec39f3eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d1f9707de2095ff1d278f92830da1fde195a8ed9f9e338e9da55738a8e7c2ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-15T01:17:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccb006493c0ff4f62b87df723788df3a2543d6039e4d2e2de8bce803674fe1a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}