Pith Number

pith:CSN2MM5Z

pith:2014:CSN2MM5ZL563LR4YMIBK25LXCQ

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Stopping the SuperSpreader Epidemic, Part II: MERS Goes Pandemic

W. David Wick

arxiv:1405.4431 v1 · 2014-05-17 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CSN2MM5ZL563LR4YMIBK25LXCQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:51:40.907214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

149ba633b95f7db5c7986202ad75771438e3b3dbecfa4db85adc48795874827a

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.4431 · arxiv_version: 1405.4431v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.4431 · pith_short_12: CSN2MM5ZL563 · pith_short_16: CSN2MM5ZL563LR4Y · pith_short_8: CSN2MM5Z

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/CSN2MM5ZL563LR4YMIBK25LXCQ \
  | 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: 149ba633b95f7db5c7986202ad75771438e3b3dbecfa4db85adc48795874827a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81d91d9c34536dd06cdb285fd674435c06b76d7688133a96bcb2e108030939d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-17T19:55:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce81df42f8019c5781e8448cf056d42fe43a00f7f3344ddf2332c3130d46f36b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.4431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}