Pith Number

pith:3H5LHUSE

pith:2018:3H5LHUSE3RIREGE22O4TQESYZQ

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Growth tradeoffs produce complex microbial communities on a single limiting resource

Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Michael Manhart

arxiv:1802.05774 v2 · 2018-02-15 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3H5LHUSE3RIREGE22O4TQESYZQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:40.661217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9fab3d244dc5112189ad3b9381258cc3c7af0454dd99d5e68c15f86f5f3d6fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05774 · arxiv_version: 1802.05774v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05774 · pith_short_12: 3H5LHUSE3RIR · pith_short_16: 3H5LHUSE3RIREGE2 · pith_short_8: 3H5LHUSE

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/3H5LHUSE3RIREGE22O4TQESYZQ \
  | 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: d9fab3d244dc5112189ad3b9381258cc3c7af0454dd99d5e68c15f86f5f3d6fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4aeaa0c49439ffb1c16c064950342ebd4f922563723a1daea18f11f644830e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-15T21:51:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e850d77b7a7c20b3af189bee3901f5263aff14884dbd2c3f30914f0ab0a5143"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05774",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}