Pith Number

pith:YZOPWUL6

pith:2012:YZOPWUL6PQGXEI7PSUHCKGNP2E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Epidemics on networks with large initial conditions or changing structure

Joel C. Miller

arxiv:1208.3438 v1 · 2012-08-16 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZOPWUL6PQGXEI7PSUHCKGNP2E}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:35.905686Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c65cfb517e7c0d7223ef950e2519afd115dad7f08b4b961b8a966831b39b6eae

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3438 · arxiv_version: 1208.3438v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3438 · pith_short_12: YZOPWUL6PQGX · pith_short_16: YZOPWUL6PQGXEI7P · pith_short_8: YZOPWUL6

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/YZOPWUL6PQGXEI7PSUHCKGNP2E \
  | 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: c65cfb517e7c0d7223ef950e2519afd115dad7f08b4b961b8a966831b39b6eae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08ec0f7e48a883a835149a4b05631a623e039a48c1dc9a0e9e92c0c13c481025",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-16T18:51:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fc120417fa2fd70ee8dd2dc7c281f674a18e9bc9877ffb1498447f7dc519694"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}