Pith Number

pith:Z2ECKFV5

pith:2017:Z2ECKFV5UZ44CUQNGGFHE2LKDA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pili mediated intercellular forces shape heterogeneous bacterial microcolonies prior to multicellular differentiation

Christoph A. Weber, Hadi Nasrollahi, Kelly Eckenrode, Khaled Alzurqa, Nicolas Biais, Vasily Zaburdaev, Wolfram P\"onisch

arxiv:1703.09659 v4 · 2017-03-28 · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2ECKFV5UZ44CUQNGGFHE2LKDA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:19.798365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce882516bda679c1520d318a72696a182486b9c4dfee496a9d4c9bc233d3dd7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09659 · arxiv_version: 1703.09659v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09659 · pith_short_12: Z2ECKFV5UZ44 · pith_short_16: Z2ECKFV5UZ44CUQN · pith_short_8: Z2ECKFV5

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/Z2ECKFV5UZ44CUQNGGFHE2LKDA \
  | 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: ce882516bda679c1520d318a72696a182486b9c4dfee496a9d4c9bc233d3dd7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1399521cf47b05bc7756280b749ce3b65e791e63fc7781b226d616a221376fb0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-28T16:25:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c2cc1ecfac68e8370572b3c75b70e0ccf1ebe8734ed62ec8825f1ebf698061d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}