Pith Number

pith:YY6WLTYJ

pith:2017:YY6WLTYJVDM5AEJ7KS2DGVRGMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Entropy stabilizes floppy crystals of mobile DNA-coated colloids

Hao Hu, Pablo Sampedro Ruiz, Ran Ni

arxiv:1712.01442 v2 · 2017-12-05 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YY6WLTYJVDM5AEJ7KS2DGVRGMH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:47.852718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c63d65cf09a8d9d0113f54b433562661d5049c2dd8bc474a5f2941de8f458ec3

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01442 · arxiv_version: 1712.01442v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01442 · pith_short_12: YY6WLTYJVDM5 · pith_short_16: YY6WLTYJVDM5AEJ7 · pith_short_8: YY6WLTYJ

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/YY6WLTYJVDM5AEJ7KS2DGVRGMH \
  | 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: c63d65cf09a8d9d0113f54b433562661d5049c2dd8bc474a5f2941de8f458ec3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38381a269a4322a2a91e63ef6b6ba4f57a27d988b782e031a4669902856ebbf9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T02:07:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d10a60716edd1c58dfabdac9ade1b7c07f9109867328a2fad492bfb0dcd00495"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}