Pith Number

pith:WCSYI7JA

pith:2017:WCSYI7JAUMEK6OETPXO6WXC72Z

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Emergence of collective propulsion through cell-cell adhesion

Katsuyoshi Matsushita

arxiv:1708.09593 v1 · 2017-08-31 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCSYI7JAUMEK6OETPXO6WXC72Z}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:17:43.024358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0a5847d20a308af38937dddeb5c5fd66e4c71db21fd7f41e707a4c4f948435f

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09593 · arxiv_version: 1708.09593v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09593 · pith_short_12: WCSYI7JAUMEK · pith_short_16: WCSYI7JAUMEK6OET · pith_short_8: WCSYI7JA

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/WCSYI7JAUMEK6OETPXO6WXC72Z \
  | 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: b0a5847d20a308af38937dddeb5c5fd66e4c71db21fd7f41e707a4c4f948435f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb8c7d4411e0a5dd26ea3416091b49fb366b169ab1117983a74342515a20e30d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-31T07:23:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78020bc4c5c75ceac596fd3806697cb17536ece62f3624945f4eb5d62ce4b6b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09593",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}