Pith Number

pith:W3HM4YOL

pith:2015:W3HM4YOLRIJGKRGAQFNZCJC57I

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You Can Run, You Can Hide: The Epidemiology and Statistical Mechanics of Zombies

Alexander A. Alemi, Christopher R. Myers, James P. Sethna, Matthew Bierbaum

arxiv:1503.01104 v3 · 2015-03-04 · q-bio.PE · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3HM4YOLRIJGKRGAQFNZCJC57I}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:12:36.387605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6cece61cb8a126544c0815b91245dfa10bf794392a07f717ceb1612e4b02691

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.01104 · arxiv_version: 1503.01104v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.01104 · pith_short_12: W3HM4YOLRIJG · pith_short_16: W3HM4YOLRIJGKRGA · pith_short_8: W3HM4YOL

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W3HM4YOLRIJGKRGAQFNZCJC57I \
  | 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: b6cece61cb8a126544c0815b91245dfa10bf794392a07f717ceb1612e4b02691

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2382dabd49d1853382b319b261eab8c6a2e02724de017631f6b6e518c2f2f38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-04T00:36:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "579aa36226e787cb43246be385b2c57422ba2e2002e3ce0c8579b286b6520bc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.01104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}