Pith Number

pith:VQL6TXVJ

pith:2020:VQL6TXVJEX5LCQMUSO57EIWP4O

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Thermodynamic cost, speed, fluctuations, and error reduction of biological copy machines

Changbong Hyeon, Yonghyun Song

arxiv:2003.14042 v1 · 2020-03-31 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQL6TXVJEX5LCQMUSO57EIWP4O}

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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	2026-07-05T04:00:00.767214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac17e9dea925fab1419493bbf222cfe3802cbaf875f4515bfe7736382e6b07d6

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.14042 · arxiv_version: 2003.14042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.14042 · pith_short_12: VQL6TXVJEX5L · pith_short_16: VQL6TXVJEX5LCQMU · pith_short_8: VQL6TXVJ

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/VQL6TXVJEX5LCQMUSO57EIWP4O \
  | 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: ac17e9dea925fab1419493bbf222cfe3802cbaf875f4515bfe7736382e6b07d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f31f741bac1dc9eedf9d63a8d1cfe3c87033a24c30e8e624c786f55df928db17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-31T09:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46be4098f07f7409f20fe4d131c66900e0ce56857eabd571b66d452c85ccf22a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.14042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}