Pith Number

pith:PV63O2LX

pith:2019:PV63O2LXHLZY3I5AERC5PRYAFB

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Centre-finding in E. coli and the role of mathematical modelling: past, present and future

Martin Howard, Sean M. Murray

arxiv:1901.06139 v1 · 2019-01-18 · q-bio.SC · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PV63O2LXHLZY3I5AERC5PRYAFB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:04.445013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d7db769773af38da3a02445d7c70028604e60f6944ff042da55160837237c43

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.06139 · arxiv_version: 1901.06139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.06139 · pith_short_12: PV63O2LXHLZY · pith_short_16: PV63O2LXHLZY3I5A · pith_short_8: PV63O2LX

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/PV63O2LXHLZY3I5AERC5PRYAFB \
  | 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: 7d7db769773af38da3a02445d7c70028604e60f6944ff042da55160837237c43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9466544206b84ae555e6303a95b6b5bdd704e4482e669bfc75742146189e546",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-18T09:06:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b33fef493841bb38db6da199ba99a4f1a8982f35f8f6356aa31ad65bb1c257a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.06139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}