Pith Number

pith:Y3J3RGLR

pith:2015:Y3J3RGLRKVT56F4K6RMELKDMUU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

General formulation of Luria-Delbr{\"u}ck distribution of the number of mutants

Bahram Houchmandzadeh

arxiv:1505.06108 v2 · 2015-05-22 · physics.bio-ph · physics.data-an · q-bio.PE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3J3RGLRKVT56F4K6RMELKDMUU}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:36:43.103930Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6d3b899715567df178af45845a86ca528cb1e76885c2be6eb65e3fa47dbb958

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.06108 · arxiv_version: 1505.06108v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.06108 · pith_short_12: Y3J3RGLRKVT5 · pith_short_16: Y3J3RGLRKVT56F4K · pith_short_8: Y3J3RGLR

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/Y3J3RGLRKVT56F4K6RMELKDMUU \
  | 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: c6d3b899715567df178af45845a86ca528cb1e76885c2be6eb65e3fa47dbb958

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "131c097865abe44f5979e3359093cf5a51334eb5f8cc4795fc8c5846b4a13955",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-22T14:45:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70c3c99db2b9d95de57bd4be3c9bddb38572aa84836d992a2333a11b93e602c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.06108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}