Pith Number

pith:VAK2RXJN

pith:2024:VAK2RXJNF4NLEBL52YIJHPG7XW

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Optimality theory of stigmergic collective information processing by chemotactic cells

Masaki Kato, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

arxiv:2407.15298 v2 · 2024-07-21 · q-bio.CB · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAK2RXJNF4NLEBL52YIJHPG7XW}

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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	2026-07-05T09:55:58.833241Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a815a8dd2d2f1ab2057dd61093bcdfbd80faccd649b8e3baad25786715328358

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.15298 · arxiv_version: 2407.15298v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.15298 · pith_short_12: VAK2RXJNF4NL · pith_short_16: VAK2RXJNF4NLEBL5 · pith_short_8: VAK2RXJN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VAK2RXJNF4NLEBL52YIJHPG7XW \
  | 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: a815a8dd2d2f1ab2057dd61093bcdfbd80faccd649b8e3baad25786715328358

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1194e92ba58a660b50138e2358237a196d055f3efd602db22bcf029fdf5b8e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-21T23:52:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b74da1aefaa8cf6d0d552cc900835443d93c9ef2088c94076d9c90b78e27f641"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.15298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}