Pith Number

pith:XQ56GEUS

pith:2017:XQ56GEUSLQ5D3VQQZP2MQT3BNH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Phenotypic switching of populations of cells in a stochastic environment

Peter G. Hufton, Tobias Galla, Yen Ting Lin

arxiv:1706.07789 v2 · 2017-06-23 · q-bio.PE · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQ56GEUSLQ5D3VQQZP2MQT3BNH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:13.543097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc3be312925c3a3dd610cbf4c84f6169da386c4e5cd9814f24f074f59269c35b

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.07789 · arxiv_version: 1706.07789v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.07789 · pith_short_12: XQ56GEUSLQ5D · pith_short_16: XQ56GEUSLQ5D3VQQ · pith_short_8: XQ56GEUS

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/XQ56GEUSLQ5D3VQQZP2MQT3BNH \
  | 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: bc3be312925c3a3dd610cbf4c84f6169da386c4e5cd9814f24f074f59269c35b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8856a3122751a3aa610502ef49fffe2215b896a26ebfdf163707c81b069ce1c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-23T17:52:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6271812837c79049a103611f48115c82850c8967b8f1e43887bba0d82f647fdf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.07789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}