Pith Number

pith:YQWH4FUT

pith:2012:YQWH4FUTNHLGDH7QCBBDARZJEX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stochastic modeling of a serial killer

M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury

arxiv:1201.2458 v2 · 2012-01-12 · physics.soc-ph · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQWH4FUTNHLGDH7QCBBDARZJEX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:53:15.729191Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c42c7e169369d6619ff0104230472925dc8e08dbf9fee06f8c88f8f3c5217626

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.2458 · arxiv_version: 1201.2458v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.2458 · pith_short_12: YQWH4FUTNHLG · pith_short_16: YQWH4FUTNHLGDH7Q · pith_short_8: YQWH4FUT

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/YQWH4FUTNHLGDH7QCBBDARZJEX \
  | 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: c42c7e169369d6619ff0104230472925dc8e08dbf9fee06f8c88f8f3c5217626

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0aa69d2856998dd4c97e6ee788dbb09ae7098ffc39abd24290787a3f0ed35402",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-12T01:05:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1190fff7d868bad4cebc676ba146bedad0dd5cfa3b31c9c26f8ca74d27b42e67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.2458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}