Pith Number

pith:VZG4MUEM

pith:2018:VZG4MUEMXRZT3VE6XV5SGSL7BQ

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How bacterial cells and colonies move on solid substrates

Christoph A. Weber, Vasily Zaburdaev, Wolfram P\"onisch

arxiv:1810.03165 v4 · 2018-10-07 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZG4MUEMXRZT3VE6XV5SGSL7BQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:30.044912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae4dc6508cbc733dd49ebd7b23497f0c1375585f9ef38a248cf101c101b0b960

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.03165 · arxiv_version: 1810.03165v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.03165 · pith_short_12: VZG4MUEMXRZT · pith_short_16: VZG4MUEMXRZT3VE6 · pith_short_8: VZG4MUEM

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/VZG4MUEMXRZT3VE6XV5SGSL7BQ \
  | 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: ae4dc6508cbc733dd49ebd7b23497f0c1375585f9ef38a248cf101c101b0b960

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66af4a938909983fa08afba90b50e379c3e942aa916acbfd2e290068fc5dbf8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-07T15:52:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20f7639155dbb142560ed04891cbbbd998d7ba90d6f2d5c05d104c28b330eece"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.03165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}