Pith Number

pith:YVDWAF7F

pith:2012:YVDWAF7F3GS552CSDNFE6LMDC3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Microtubule Length-Regulation by Molecular Motors

Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey, Louis Reese

arxiv:1204.5655 v1 · 2012-04-25 · q-bio.SC · cond-mat.stat-mech · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVDWAF7F3GS552CSDNFE6LMDC3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:05.071394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5476017e5d9a5dee8521b4a4f2d8316f674ac8390b4897c45541351fa79f6d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5655 · arxiv_version: 1204.5655v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5655 · pith_short_12: YVDWAF7F3GS5 · pith_short_16: YVDWAF7F3GS552CS · pith_short_8: YVDWAF7F

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/YVDWAF7F3GS552CSDNFE6LMDC3 \
  | 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: c5476017e5d9a5dee8521b4a4f2d8316f674ac8390b4897c45541351fa79f6d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68648d8242f4645e25c655e7bbbbcd32f81181ac2006485587d1d7c5befb72d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-25T13:40:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b48a47391e1b9d7930a0d58bb0a5ff222353e2ed29670d9812df98074bbb9343"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}