Pith Number

pith:XPTXCPFJ

pith:2007:XPTXCPFJV3YR6EE7ZLGFLG5EA2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Steady-state MreB helices inside bacteria: dynamics without motors

Andrew D. Rutenberg, Jun F. Allard

arxiv:0708.0528 v1 · 2007-08-03 · q-bio.SC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XPTXCPFJV3YR6EE7ZLGFLG5EA2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:15.147535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbe7713ca9aef11f109fcacc559ba4069434dcffbd273971954703f3bf0dad6b

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.0528 · arxiv_version: 0708.0528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.0528 · pith_short_12: XPTXCPFJV3YR · pith_short_16: XPTXCPFJV3YR6EE7 · pith_short_8: XPTXCPFJ

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/XPTXCPFJV3YR6EE7ZLGFLG5EA2 \
  | 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: bbe7713ca9aef11f109fcacc559ba4069434dcffbd273971954703f3bf0dad6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fb60a432206a194463c65daf00ad711672277740baae0ee1eae27db972d6c05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-03T16:14:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7005a4ace39fae7f2d02d5111233da3c66a89495df152596f4bb1d81069ed60c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.0528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}