Pith Number

pith:QA45BLQE

pith:2015:QA45BLQEQFAPL52AW7V5XR5KIS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Element of Determinism in a Stochastic Flagellar Motor Switch

Li Xie, Tuba Altindal, Xiao-Lun Wu

arxiv:1504.05631 v1 · 2015-04-22 · physics.bio-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QA45BLQEQFAPL52AW7V5XR5KIS}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:20:46.566962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8039d0ae048140f5f740b7ebdbc7aa4494c68f8f822e74b6a45f5e87c7d77ba1

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.05631 · arxiv_version: 1504.05631v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.05631 · pith_short_12: QA45BLQEQFAP · pith_short_16: QA45BLQEQFAPL52A · pith_short_8: QA45BLQE

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/QA45BLQEQFAPL52AW7V5XR5KIS \
  | 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: 8039d0ae048140f5f740b7ebdbc7aa4494c68f8f822e74b6a45f5e87c7d77ba1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df267ae30c75931703b6470d633d76e5afb8f78ef608d9e46212b9fa8f13b1c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-22T01:53:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "462505b86c9012e836027575a821de82f49f461d7f40b2456f1c19091e143aed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.05631",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}