Pith Number

pith:VYC3C4SJ

pith:2013:VYC3C4SJNY234NWBHTBMYT7DRJ

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Composite random search strategies based on non-directional sensory cues

Ben C. Nolting, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Chad E. Brassil, Travis M. Hinkelman

arxiv:1306.5048 v2 · 2013-06-21 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYC3C4SJNY234NWBHTBMYT7DRJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:32.080806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae05b172496e35be36c13cc2cc4fe38a64f09473818acedb3bf0f963bebc0b27

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.5048 · arxiv_version: 1306.5048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.5048 · pith_short_12: VYC3C4SJNY23 · pith_short_16: VYC3C4SJNY234NWB · pith_short_8: VYC3C4SJ

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/VYC3C4SJNY234NWBHTBMYT7DRJ \
  | 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: ae05b172496e35be36c13cc2cc4fe38a64f09473818acedb3bf0f963bebc0b27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c792d13ac26d5a3dca61e75b4096a90cbe2fa54ba21217eb95fc4d66d08b4332",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-21T05:21:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "072a8c53e3016385a0f8a6af157f06471fdb64b06c6ff3c2fb767bd86c173e04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.5048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}