Pith Number

pith:VSYC6NOM

pith:2017:VSYC6NOMQWMNZPPAAQOLXQWNWZ

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Fundamental Principles in Bacterial Physiology - History, Recent progress, and the Future with Focus on Cell Size Control: A Review

Fangwei Si, Matthew Scott, Rami Pugatch, Suckjoon Jun

arxiv:1712.00194 v3 · 2017-12-01 · q-bio.CB · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSYC6NOMQWMNZPPAAQOLXQWNWZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:04.417031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acb02f35cc8598dcbde0041cbbc2cdb66dbf9f7410b9dcc56d342b29f84d017d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00194 · arxiv_version: 1712.00194v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00194 · pith_short_12: VSYC6NOMQWMN · pith_short_16: VSYC6NOMQWMNZPPA · pith_short_8: VSYC6NOM

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/VSYC6NOMQWMNZPPAAQOLXQWNWZ \
  | 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: acb02f35cc8598dcbde0041cbbc2cdb66dbf9f7410b9dcc56d342b29f84d017d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24c10680678a9ddcd064fe68ddfe4881ee6d35a418e5e365a26fc3f1e2014a5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T05:02:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ac1e6a3dd7f83bb35de4a5ba9c9937c526f5d4981cd35a344e76bb6f471d787"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}