Pith Number

pith:VVJEY6C3

pith:2017:VVJEY6C3FOT4RPDQ3KZ7Y7D5BG

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Towards physical principles of biological evolution

Eugene V. Koonin, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf

arxiv:1709.00284 v2 · 2017-09-01 · q-bio.OT · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVJEY6C3FOT4RPDQ3KZ7Y7D5BG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:44.575113Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad524c785b2ba7c8bc70dab3fc7c7d09b33df1ef74e96713db50ecdd81f2ebe7

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00284 · arxiv_version: 1709.00284v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00284 · pith_short_12: VVJEY6C3FOT4 · pith_short_16: VVJEY6C3FOT4RPDQ · pith_short_8: VVJEY6C3

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/VVJEY6C3FOT4RPDQ3KZ7Y7D5BG \
  | 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: ad524c785b2ba7c8bc70dab3fc7c7d09b33df1ef74e96713db50ecdd81f2ebe7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ce5f70eb76f559f94c2a51bebd13f2c7c278a8cfa6ac5d65faac03400c3c221",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-01T13:09:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f854aa5cfca041453ef8931c791420be9a59f2eb74fbddaeb55f2c74a07efcea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00284",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}