Pith Number

pith:GZN5SRPU

pith:2016:GZN5SRPUJ4AKNULYO3W3E6X3QA

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The deterministic Kermack-McKendrick model bounds the general stochastic epidemic

Frank G. Ball, Kieran J. Sharkey, Robert R. Wilkinson

arxiv:1602.01730 v3 · 2016-02-04 · q-bio.PE · cond-mat.stat-mech · math.PR · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GZN5SRPUJ4AKNULYO3W3E6X3QA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:01.407743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

365bd945f44f00a6d17876edb27afb803e14984ccd9e71fa58d7ef0880e8e0a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01730 · arxiv_version: 1602.01730v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01730 · pith_short_12: GZN5SRPUJ4AK · pith_short_16: GZN5SRPUJ4AKNULY · pith_short_8: GZN5SRPU

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/GZN5SRPUJ4AKNULYO3W3E6X3QA \
  | 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: 365bd945f44f00a6d17876edb27afb803e14984ccd9e71fa58d7ef0880e8e0a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db268f4cfee11b7a10f4aed5ee9b1073cb867ba9a4293b2f3675b47b1d73a3e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "math.PR",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-04T16:26:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a152428ba759bfe2676a21c435533d7577e968a74118ab9c557538d3548e6d15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01730",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}