Pith Number

pith:MSBKEIK4

pith:2010:MSBKEIK4SJBO6EQNHG7GGY5KRS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stochastic models of population extinction

Baruch Meerson, Otso Ovaskainen

arxiv:1008.1162 v1 · 2010-08-06 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSBKEIK4SJBO6EQNHG7GGY5KRS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:49.899412Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6482a2215c9242ef120d39be6363aa8c9ca47e316103d5d3d22e8ed42db58668

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.1162 · arxiv_version: 1008.1162v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.1162 · pith_short_12: MSBKEIK4SJBO · pith_short_16: MSBKEIK4SJBO6EQN · pith_short_8: MSBKEIK4

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/MSBKEIK4SJBO6EQNHG7GGY5KRS \
  | 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: 6482a2215c9242ef120d39be6363aa8c9ca47e316103d5d3d22e8ed42db58668

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da36c63e0c8eb05cea9bb4f580d89dc1dfd7ad7f00e41bfeceb1fefcc76cdfab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-06T11:45:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54eb37f3095ea4ec49df675515ed6871ed72f9a17bf10c8eb69f8ca7d98a0c8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.1162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}