Pith Number

pith:3VPIXAX4

pith:2012:3VPIXAX4P2PGJX52X7DPRJAVOF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Physics of Self-Replication

Jeremy L. England

arxiv:1209.1179 v1 · 2012-09-06 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VPIXAX4P2PGJX52X7DPRJAVOF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:39.596567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd5e8b82fc7e9e64dfbabfc6f8a41571726c2dce362906d6ff6631175424e102

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1179 · arxiv_version: 1209.1179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1179 · pith_short_12: 3VPIXAX4P2PG · pith_short_16: 3VPIXAX4P2PGJX52 · pith_short_8: 3VPIXAX4

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/3VPIXAX4P2PGJX52X7DPRJAVOF \
  | 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: dd5e8b82fc7e9e64dfbabfc6f8a41571726c2dce362906d6ff6631175424e102

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33ed879b8e6fe090617ef56692554979c64b0a282934bb19ace704b1c7139fe9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-06T05:03:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5e3b46b7e84d389d323dc78cd3cc29e864cf8facade3e410c291b4f2a81345f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}