Pith Number

pith:VKN23SPG

pith:2013:VKN23SPG62JWFSWQJRQCMBRIW2

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The Cost of an Epidemic over a Complex Network: A Random Matrix Approach

Adam Wierman, Babak Hassibi, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Subhonmesh Bose

arxiv:1309.2236 v1 · 2013-09-09 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKN23SPG62JWFSWQJRQCMBRIW2}

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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	2026-05-18T03:13:46.876678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa9badc9e6f69362cad04c60260628b69663a9ad783c73581cb920d68cfa9af7

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.2236 · arxiv_version: 1309.2236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.2236 · pith_short_12: VKN23SPG62JW · pith_short_16: VKN23SPG62JWFSWQ · pith_short_8: VKN23SPG

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/VKN23SPG62JWFSWQJRQCMBRIW2 \
  | 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: aa9badc9e6f69362cad04c60260628b69663a9ad783c73581cb920d68cfa9af7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a20cc6d731c636e39d6a5d920e50339ceebc8b2a9a438a06bc5a8029c96b103",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-09T17:39:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5883feb482ff1caedbe6cd611deea12be1e0d2a33aac076cdd08579b0afa7775"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.2236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}