Pith Number

pith:6YREFHVO

pith:2014:6YREFHVOADJU5CAOMP3TFYP2IE

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The Western Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic exhibits both global exponential and local polynomial growth rates

C\'ecile Viboud, Gerardo Chowell, James M. Hyman, Lone Simonsen

arxiv:1411.7364 v3 · 2014-11-26 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6YREFHVOADJU5CAOMP3TFYP2IE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:28:39.882086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f622429eae00d34e880e63f732e1fa4123df23da83c49da08d3902da5d66e24f

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.7364 · arxiv_version: 1411.7364v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.7364 · pith_short_12: 6YREFHVOADJU · pith_short_16: 6YREFHVOADJU5CAO · pith_short_8: 6YREFHVO

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6YREFHVOADJU5CAOMP3TFYP2IE \
  | 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: f622429eae00d34e880e63f732e1fa4123df23da83c49da08d3902da5d66e24f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc695ec6db01b5f8a431546182acab8fce79ce0fd19f58a6e73d777da24e9a70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-26T20:42:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38ae0edce21e4bd49caab6dbb7da70465782876ae8944667df530d9e0ce5a168"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.7364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}