Pith Number

pith:2WBBV3NV

pith:2003:2WBBV3NV6UVC4UE6M77YJZNTXI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physical limits to biochemical signaling

S. Setayeshgar, W. Bialek

arxiv:physics/0301001 v1 · 2003-01-01 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2WBBV3NV6UVC4UE6M77YJZNTXI}

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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	2026-07-04T14:43:52.257367Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5821aedb5f52a2e509e67ff84e5b3ba1de5ac481bc6a9e9f738629be62fcd95

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0301001 · arxiv_version: physics/0301001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0301001 · pith_short_12: 2WBBV3NV6UVC · pith_short_16: 2WBBV3NV6UVC4UE6 · pith_short_8: 2WBBV3NV

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/2WBBV3NV6UVC4UE6M77YJZNTXI \
  | 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: d5821aedb5f52a2e509e67ff84e5b3ba1de5ac481bc6a9e9f738629be62fcd95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31d64e4ca0d1d1617f757cb579b0b12b5f3251c4a3142f78e9b7db46a8279d13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "q-bio"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-01-01T20:27:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f528d20c170518d1e29ab453c2c0f362c1e1a982844006f36d80d09c88c48880"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0301001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}