Pith Number

pith:V2VKZESF

pith:2026:V2VKZESF4GCW6WU6PZBRJKBRQH

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Contact-Dependent Ion Gating Explains Directional Asymmetry in the Bacterial Flagellar Motor

Jiading Zhu, Yongnan Hu, Yuansheng Cao, Yuhai Tu

arxiv:2604.00470 v2 · 2026-04-01 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.BM

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\pithnumber{V2VKZESF4GCW6WU6PZBRJKBRQH}

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First computed	2026-07-16T01:21:46.579729Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeaaac9245e1856f5a9e7e4314a83181c606174ea881b8232e656792859e7fed

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.00470 · arxiv_version: 2604.00470v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.00470 · pith_short_12: V2VKZESF4GCW · pith_short_16: V2VKZESF4GCW6WU6 · pith_short_8: V2VKZESF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V2VKZESF4GCW6WU6PZBRJKBRQH \
  | 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: aeaaac9245e1856f5a9e7e4314a83181c606174ea881b8232e656792859e7fed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "002d3e1a89ac49ae437c2f0a360638239fdcc4e8ad30f3c3a31d99ec7c67a853",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.BM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-01T04:32:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6191c59dbce3941dd17ca234c41eadfd9eec9f5ed2aa4d2481cf33b9f76f067b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2604.00470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}