Pith Number

pith:HYNCRVWE

pith:2012:HYNCRVWETN6YTRGYQ6WJ2GSCE3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Forces between clustered stereocilia minimize friction in the ear on a subnanometre scale

A. J. Hudspeth, Andrei S. Kozlov, Corstiaen P. C. Versteegh, Johannes Baumgart, Thomas Risler

arxiv:1201.0739 v1 · 2012-01-03 · q-bio.SC · physics.bio-ph · physics.comp-ph · physics.flu-dyn · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HYNCRVWETN6YTRGYQ6WJ2GSCE3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:16.856610Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e1a28d6c49b7d89c4d887ac9d1a4226c332ee219ef114f8251cedd964993d34

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.0739 · arxiv_version: 1201.0739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.0739 · pith_short_12: HYNCRVWETN6Y · pith_short_16: HYNCRVWETN6YTRGY · pith_short_8: HYNCRVWE

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/HYNCRVWETN6YTRGYQ6WJ2GSCE3 \
  | 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: 3e1a28d6c49b7d89c4d887ac9d1a4226c332ee219ef114f8251cedd964993d34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b0397f3f7dd8dc84eee90c42257f98d5a00600460644da270a97989847bb6c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "physics.comp-ph",
      "physics.flu-dyn",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-03T20:12:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b2716aea0defcbcec02e89d6107f5e2dfcfb81314bc012b0ce5b29d490c4a588"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.0739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}