Pith Number

pith:VMGJFU5Q

pith:2017:VMGJFU5QXG6HECUXUVG6C4Q3RR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unifying ageing and frailty through complex dynamical networks

Andrew D. Rutenberg, Arnold B. Mitnitski, Kenneth Rockwood, Spencer Farrell

arxiv:1706.06434 v3 · 2017-06-16 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMGJFU5QXG6HECUXUVG6C4Q3RR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:17.503193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab0c92d3b0b9bc720a97a54de1721b8c4777bb0a29d83f99789751895632495d

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06434 · arxiv_version: 1706.06434v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06434 · pith_short_12: VMGJFU5QXG6H · pith_short_16: VMGJFU5QXG6HECUX · pith_short_8: VMGJFU5Q

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/VMGJFU5QXG6HECUXUVG6C4Q3RR \
  | 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: ab0c92d3b0b9bc720a97a54de1721b8c4777bb0a29d83f99789751895632495d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d5b800910721b7a9e4f150b6e57a14479c2bf35b09b90cc96151394facbd745",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T21:01:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f791934b4f805fc40bb361ac2d4c5ae6fad6c6bcaa45c9024c1a6661abc5c5fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}