Pith Number

pith:UJOT3RGU

pith:2017:UJOT3RGU7P2RGNCLMSJYZW6FYT

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The Cost of Uncertainty in Curing Epidemics

Constantine Caramanis, Jessica Hoffmann

arxiv:1711.00167 v2 · 2017-11-01 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJOT3RGU7P2RGNCLMSJYZW6FYT}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:22:39.286338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a25d3dc4d4fbf513344b64938cdbc5c4ee10a8a02071090e51cc7b5511b3e8d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00167 · arxiv_version: 1711.00167v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00167 · pith_short_12: UJOT3RGU7P2R · pith_short_16: UJOT3RGU7P2RGNCL · pith_short_8: UJOT3RGU

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/UJOT3RGU7P2RGNCLMSJYZW6FYT \
  | 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: a25d3dc4d4fbf513344b64938cdbc5c4ee10a8a02071090e51cc7b5511b3e8d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "762e39c120f71fc5d8b5ebd23cd9a999cc8e1419d17f80b564c10b00cfaafa3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-01T02:14:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a29f6f6e1af9dd894f1580e35a5f025bf7232239ee56a6b27a4b36f790e21053"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}