Pith Number

pith:VMBPAZEA

pith:2010:VMBPAZEA5HFGQKQLMB5VLG2DH3

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Collective decision making in cohesive flocks

K. Bhattacharya, Tam\'as Vicsek

arxiv:1007.4453 v1 · 2010-07-26 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMBPAZEA5HFGQKQLMB5VLG2DH3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:31:50.304423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab02f06480e9ca682a0b607b559b433ecefac774f1c1b22003e1a6fd97a8f6b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.4453 · arxiv_version: 1007.4453v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.4453 · pith_short_12: VMBPAZEA5HFG · pith_short_16: VMBPAZEA5HFGQKQL · pith_short_8: VMBPAZEA

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/VMBPAZEA5HFGQKQLMB5VLG2DH3 \
  | 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: ab02f06480e9ca682a0b607b559b433ecefac774f1c1b22003e1a6fd97a8f6b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b71bbba8696a89f8a4ab01e499458aed8fedeff2a53dd9ca179f102cab954507",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-26T13:37:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc73f6aee9fba852953d71fcdd632d653a4e06971ffc6a0b326e55e337f9f93c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.4453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}