Pith Number

pith:VC2D4XHU

pith:2016:VC2D4XHUGHTC6ZOYRAEQ7TBEEX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Novel Propulsion Method of Flexible Underwater Robots

Aiguo Ming, Jun Shintake, Makoto Shimojo

arxiv:1612.00053 v1 · 2016-11-30 · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VC2D4XHUGHTC6ZOYRAEQ7TBEEX}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:56:06.932214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b43e5cf431e62f65d888090fcc2425cbc70ba6d9c12d795f4d0aaa1164c6e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00053 · arxiv_version: 1612.00053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00053 · pith_short_12: VC2D4XHUGHTC · pith_short_16: VC2D4XHUGHTC6ZOY · pith_short_8: VC2D4XHU

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/VC2D4XHUGHTC6ZOYRAEQ7TBEEX \
  | 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: a8b43e5cf431e62f65d888090fcc2425cbc70ba6d9c12d795f4d0aaa1164c6e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b46d8f5469a376a0953e6e09ee2c4a6e83cb1c1b08e05106fea9de594971ea9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-30T22:07:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d99ed8566294de59346f0022e4e625116dbfb27748bc23ac6d0e978796bd41ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}