Pith Number

pith:VPTMQJ7G

pith:2012:VPTMQJ7GXZRPZ5HPLV3KWVEPVF

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Inferring global network properties from egocentric data with applications to epidemics

Pieter Trapman, Tom Britton

arxiv:1201.2788 v1 · 2012-01-13 · cs.SI · math.PR · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPTMQJ7GXZRPZ5HPLV3KWVEPVF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:04:43.110696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abe6c827e6be62fcf4ef5d76ab548fa9521aaaaefff7710b2201e305a0ba8b8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.2788 · arxiv_version: 1201.2788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.2788 · pith_short_12: VPTMQJ7GXZRP · pith_short_16: VPTMQJ7GXZRPZ5HP · pith_short_8: VPTMQJ7G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VPTMQJ7GXZRPZ5HPLV3KWVEPVF \
  | 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: abe6c827e6be62fcf4ef5d76ab548fa9521aaaaefff7710b2201e305a0ba8b8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a976a7675bec03578df1c1de7a859adfdd7e6d201d23b9a56bfb12b3882e276",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-13T10:18:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5378afdfd1c92894af127afdbea5fc1c4a0bcc056d1d03f8e2651dd68c653a43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.2788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}