Pith Number

pith:WSU4HCX3

pith:2010:WSU4HCX35U3XEJWX6AK3QRUJD6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Microbial Fuel Cells Applied to the Metabolically-Based Detection of Extraterrestrial Life

Eduardo Cort\'on, Pablo J.D. Mauas, Ximena C. Abrevaya

arxiv:1006.1585 v2 · 2010-06-08 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSU4HCX35U3XEJWX6AK3QRUJD6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:06:56.035700Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4a9c38afbed377226d7f015b846891fb202e9401cf2b72e6c7f3bbc7cb0a665

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.1585 · arxiv_version: 1006.1585v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.1585 · pith_short_12: WSU4HCX35U3X · pith_short_16: WSU4HCX35U3XEJWX · pith_short_8: WSU4HCX3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WSU4HCX35U3XEJWX6AK3QRUJD6 \
  | 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: b4a9c38afbed377226d7f015b846891fb202e9401cf2b72e6c7f3bbc7cb0a665

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96a6a2f693f5b6f4146e8d7ace5ac621a4b6b470539ac2b05c0893df63bf38ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-08T15:21:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d526d38db5671a6335d383a590055ab52dfd05e849e56889b23836b8c6b6781"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.1585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}