Pith Number

pith:MYJA42DL

pith:2017:MYJA42DLT7KC5C67ZYPDKRC2TT

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Impact of the infectious period on epidemics

Kieran J. Sharkey, Robert R. Wilkinson

arxiv:1710.05730 v2 · 2017-10-16 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYJA42DLT7KC5C67ZYPDKRC2TT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:05.311898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66120e686b9fd42e8bdfce1e35445a9ccb32803847280fbd7c7d249eb283d460

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05730 · arxiv_version: 1710.05730v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05730 · pith_short_12: MYJA42DLT7KC · pith_short_16: MYJA42DLT7KC5C67 · pith_short_8: MYJA42DL

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/MYJA42DLT7KC5C67ZYPDKRC2TT \
  | 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: 66120e686b9fd42e8bdfce1e35445a9ccb32803847280fbd7c7d249eb283d460

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19e117ecc383035ca050c65a071dcbb1ec56870a00660ddbf01fcf78bf17c107",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T14:28:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "474fbb4e90eef495f40e7f99f0a2514c7d426dc5d595d86bcee5148112ba82f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05730",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}