Pith Number

pith:VW4S6G4R

pith:2012:VW4S6G4R3UAZANXUXG5KWLCUAK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Individual rules for trail pattern formation in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile)

Andrea Perna, Boris Granovskiy, David Sumpter, Guy Theraulaz, Marjorie Lab\'edan, Simon Garnier, Stamatios Nicolis, Vincent Fourcassi\'e

arxiv:1201.5827 v2 · 2012-01-27 · q-bio.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VW4S6G4R3UAZANXUXG5KWLCUAK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:44.360377Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adb92f1b91dd019036f4b9baab2c5402977b5e67864ff32e80dc7f260f047d73

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.5827 · arxiv_version: 1201.5827v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.5827 · pith_short_12: VW4S6G4R3UAZ · pith_short_16: VW4S6G4R3UAZANXU · pith_short_8: VW4S6G4R

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/VW4S6G4R3UAZANXUXG5KWLCUAK \
  | 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: adb92f1b91dd019036f4b9baab2c5402977b5e67864ff32e80dc7f260f047d73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12278f62d004766345574e0d72a156d01db21c98bdec1531f4e169cfc4b7b3f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-27T16:43:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d089e8e3c97db1a253113d6ddc8ed7f8fe30b45b9f3bcbdcaaa36bf7a4e1d1a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.5827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}