Pith Number

pith:YOV3V4WO

pith:2017:YOV3V4WO2RBVP5NFOWK5TZUWWO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Language: The missing selection pressure

Jean-Louis Dessalles

arxiv:1712.05005 v1 · 2017-12-13 · q-bio.PE · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOV3V4WO2RBVP5NFOWK5TZUWWO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:01.271963Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3abbaf2ced44357f5a57595d9e696b39bf44518320bb419fb7ce7536732617e

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.05005 · arxiv_version: 1712.05005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.05005 · pith_short_12: YOV3V4WO2RBV · pith_short_16: YOV3V4WO2RBVP5NF · pith_short_8: YOV3V4WO

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/YOV3V4WO2RBVP5NFOWK5TZUWWO \
  | 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: c3abbaf2ced44357f5a57595d9e696b39bf44518320bb419fb7ce7536732617e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ebce79885845c8675daf41a7d9fdbea15139818460733193564dbeb25482980",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-13T20:46:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e74f584e895870393f85d2b4ef900e5af9f77e7578d1821eca89323204ddc1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.05005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}