Pith Number

pith:VF3GU4EY

pith:2017:VF3GU4EY4U4AT4IRMEJ73PQQRC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A mechanical model of bacteriophage DNA ejection

Rahul Arun, Sandip Ghosal

arxiv:1705.10678 v1 · 2017-05-30 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VF3GU4EY4U4AT4IRMEJ73PQQRC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:23.821284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9766a7098e53809f1116113fdbe108899284cac5f44341b1dd668211be2afc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10678 · arxiv_version: 1705.10678v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10678 · pith_short_12: VF3GU4EY4U4A · pith_short_16: VF3GU4EY4U4AT4IR · pith_short_8: VF3GU4EY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VF3GU4EY4U4AT4IRMEJ73PQQRC \
  | 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: a9766a7098e53809f1116113fdbe108899284cac5f44341b1dd668211be2afc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50731231b8636296c43cc96abf214e753e62e40fc39bfbe98201bebd78415c27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T14:46:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8e61b4b694d63897d852abbd713a3c6038c9a42f3db305e00a87feff8ab6d4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10678",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}