Pith Number

pith:YCMISZQ4

pith:2014:YCMISZQ4QX33UUZ3XLMSYID5HU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can one hear the shape of a population history?

Elchanan Mossel, Junhyong Kim, Mikl\'os Z. R\'acz, Nathan Ross

arxiv:1402.2424 v2 · 2014-02-11 · q-bio.PE · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCMISZQ4QX33UUZ3XLMSYID5HU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:41:41.799279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c09889661c85f7ba533bbad92c207d3d31a89f26e1deb3a2fb0ba0003557289a

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.2424 · arxiv_version: 1402.2424v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.2424 · pith_short_12: YCMISZQ4QX33 · pith_short_16: YCMISZQ4QX33UUZ3 · pith_short_8: YCMISZQ4

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/YCMISZQ4QX33UUZ3XLMSYID5HU \
  | 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: c09889661c85f7ba533bbad92c207d3d31a89f26e1deb3a2fb0ba0003557289a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d0ddcc847cd8c1e611f971e565025f62b7ea73ee022f8bcf86cb6bd82fdf0f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-11T10:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7ef3b8b5fc1ef761f2b0210593691730124e9c0aeab7efecacbd5573d0d09de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.2424",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}