Pith Number

pith:LKFTZMJ5

pith:2025:LKFTZMJ5HRMRE33LYRLJFSXRX5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bacterial proliferation pattern formation

John S. Chuang, Riccardo Rao, Stanislas Leibler

arxiv:2501.09546 v1 · 2025-01-16 · q-bio.PE · nlin.AO · nlin.PS · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.CB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LKFTZMJ5HRMRE33LYRLJFSXRX5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T10:01:48.533590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a8b3cb13d3c59126f6bc45692caf1bf53390229cfd3ca8217a7bb30c69244af

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.09546 · arxiv_version: 2501.09546v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.09546 · pith_short_12: LKFTZMJ5HRMR · pith_short_16: LKFTZMJ5HRMRE33L · pith_short_8: LKFTZMJ5

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/LKFTZMJ5HRMRE33LYRLJFSXRX5 \
  | 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: 5a8b3cb13d3c59126f6bc45692caf1bf53390229cfd3ca8217a7bb30c69244af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7bfc5ab6d2f3de988d323ddf12f3af8040668a4cc64f285cdf963ba9a20204e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO",
      "nlin.PS",
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-16T14:04:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd163f9954e40075aa8991b5faa3d8a07d9feb2718b00d532fb13ee92b6d9e3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.09546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}