Pith Number

pith:M3OSHZOL

pith:2019:M3OSHZOLZUR7UXILHSTG4CC45E

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Efficient sliding locomotion with isotropic friction

Silas Alben

arxiv:1902.03163 v1 · 2019-02-08 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3OSHZOLZUR7UXILHSTG4CC45E}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:37.050390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66dd23e5cbcd23fa5d0b3ca66e085ce90bb733c74942f94507bc563bf3789501

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.03163 · arxiv_version: 1902.03163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.03163 · pith_short_12: M3OSHZOLZUR7 · pith_short_16: M3OSHZOLZUR7UXIL · pith_short_8: M3OSHZOL

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/M3OSHZOLZUR7UXILHSTG4CC45E \
  | 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: 66dd23e5cbcd23fa5d0b3ca66e085ce90bb733c74942f94507bc563bf3789501

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1169d2b23ed07c0ec53027944f680cfd9fd4f2599251d01802bf15524e2597b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-08T16:09:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad74696c5e7d40d2fa3abcf6fb04d04bb5fd3ccef21536c6e27bb7a9cffde62a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.03163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}