Pith Number

pith:PPHMTVFK

pith:2021:PPHMTVFKYVTI5JM4QLGGNWUX4F

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The Role of Masks in Mitigating Viral Spread on Networks

Anirudh Sridhar, Chai Wah Wu, H.Vincent Poor, Kathleen M. Carley, Osman Yagan, Simon A. Levin, Yurun Tian

arxiv:2110.04398 v5 · 2021-10-08 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:36:19.817852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7bcec9d4aac5668ea59c82cc66da97e171f932472cb821853da3cb892883b854

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.04398 · arxiv_version: 2110.04398v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.04398 · pith_short_12: PPHMTVFKYVTI · pith_short_16: PPHMTVFKYVTI5JM4 · pith_short_8: PPHMTVFK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PPHMTVFKYVTI5JM4QLGGNWUX4F \
  | 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: 7bcec9d4aac5668ea59c82cc66da97e171f932472cb821853da3cb892883b854

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-08T22:36:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f587d7a65438e42380f9859b16b94f6415262596aba8b6e776e5956b179a7e7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.04398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}