Pith Number

pith:Z7NZ4QPX

pith:2017:Z7NZ4QPXFUYKCD6FAYYCFTYWEJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Transmission clusters in the HIV-1 epidemic among men who have sex with men in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aur\'elie Labbe, Bluma Brenner, David A Stephens, Luc Villandr\'e, Michel Roger, Ruxandra-Ilinca Ibanescu

arxiv:1708.09443 v1 · 2017-08-30 · stat.AP · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7NZ4QPXFUYKCD6FAYYCFTYWEJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:18.796074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfdb9e41f72d30a10fc5063022cf162279cd5cea3ce803e803e507ac97313931

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09443 · arxiv_version: 1708.09443v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09443 · pith_short_12: Z7NZ4QPXFUYK · pith_short_16: Z7NZ4QPXFUYKCD6F · pith_short_8: Z7NZ4QPX

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/Z7NZ4QPXFUYKCD6FAYYCFTYWEJ \
  | 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: cfdb9e41f72d30a10fc5063022cf162279cd5cea3ce803e803e507ac97313931

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac3da36d3f57972a5a116f37146746f705f3a4776b48e36e692c1af10eb3cd04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-30T19:39:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c694810f456b7833a8c98cfa2b9a44a47a4b7ef38dd386c3ff7820c6c05b43e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}