Pith Number

pith:QYVUCDQH

pith:2012:QYVUCDQHQO5ADLLG2BSDKJBYU4

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Fundamental Limits on Sensing Chemical Concentrations with Linear Biochemical Networks

Christopher C. Govern, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

arxiv:1210.5113 v1 · 2012-10-18 · q-bio.MN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYVUCDQHQO5ADLLG2BSDKJBYU4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:46.633733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

862b410e0783ba01ad66d064352438a704dd09145f2d722e46bbf444720088db

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5113 · arxiv_version: 1210.5113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5113 · pith_short_12: QYVUCDQHQO5A · pith_short_16: QYVUCDQHQO5ADLLG · pith_short_8: QYVUCDQH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYVUCDQHQO5ADLLG2BSDKJBYU4 \
  | 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: 862b410e0783ba01ad66d064352438a704dd09145f2d722e46bbf444720088db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bb71687f82f51d3c3973b66ab4a3afd72501652bbc5514e4d0983f62d3e0975",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-18T13:29:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65e363ffb3bb6de99d93ad0c1d0f6ac14684f5161c97708e3878c2b19abcdd95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}