Pith Number

pith:IWH777GG

pith:2014:IWH777GGG5GTMW4UJLQVS55WSJ

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A Hierarchical Model for Estimating HIV Epidemics

Le Bao, Mary Mahy, Peter Ghys, Tim Brown, Xiaoyue Niu

arxiv:1411.4219 v1 · 2014-11-16 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWH777GGG5GTMW4UJLQVS55WSJ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:46.209402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

458ffffcc6374d365b944ae15977b692425b7492cc5cf266f109362047009552

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.4219 · arxiv_version: 1411.4219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.4219 · pith_short_12: IWH777GGG5GT · pith_short_16: IWH777GGG5GTMW4U · pith_short_8: IWH777GG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWH777GGG5GTMW4UJLQVS55WSJ \
  | 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: 458ffffcc6374d365b944ae15977b692425b7492cc5cf266f109362047009552

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b93ea47cecac324b2de05f4cea4f23edd8bd8938fe2862acaa8bc44b0272bd09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-16T05:49:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a6394c78cdc5342eee9d4f3d2268d74b1e779981f71b38bd0e16d905c9e3e40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.4219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}