Pith Number

pith:JDSIMVQ2

pith:2018:JDSIMVQ2VPYHOFXBSRMZNNPWV3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Critical-like Collective State Leads to Long-range Cell Communication in Dictyostelium discoideum Aggregation

Darvin Yi, Giovanna De Palo, Robert G. Endres

arxiv:1801.03707 v1 · 2018-01-11 · q-bio.CB · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JDSIMVQ2VPYHOFXBSRMZNNPWV3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:13.637431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48e486561aabf07716e1945996b5f6aefdb47c7e0e512fce390517e05d74a2ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.03707 · arxiv_version: 1801.03707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.03707 · pith_short_12: JDSIMVQ2VPYH · pith_short_16: JDSIMVQ2VPYHOFXB · pith_short_8: JDSIMVQ2

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/JDSIMVQ2VPYHOFXBSRMZNNPWV3 \
  | 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: 48e486561aabf07716e1945996b5f6aefdb47c7e0e512fce390517e05d74a2ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f16f47686729946dd235f717cddc11c70e1b4cbc5f117617d2216f5cdcb466e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-11T10:59:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a24f10eb88d825e1dd6d7dbbeaa176a2a5fc8a599c1fc4d85d2849785e23fe90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.03707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}