Pith Number

pith:ZL5MV7CQ

pith:2013:ZL5MV7CQTC52DMAWDU4KN7Z6OB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Characterizing Branching Processes from Sampled Data

Bruno Ribeiro, Don Towsley, Fabricio Murai, Krista Gile

arxiv:1302.5847 v1 · 2013-02-23 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL5MV7CQTC52DMAWDU4KN7Z6OB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:43.509137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cafacafc5098bba1b0161d38a6ff3e7046fbe0077e4ac9d80c64ccad82b5f4ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.5847 · arxiv_version: 1302.5847v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.5847 · pith_short_12: ZL5MV7CQTC52 · pith_short_16: ZL5MV7CQTC52DMAW · pith_short_8: ZL5MV7CQ

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/ZL5MV7CQTC52DMAWDU4KN7Z6OB \
  | 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: cafacafc5098bba1b0161d38a6ff3e7046fbe0077e4ac9d80c64ccad82b5f4ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42f7b70f4bbadf816bdf77a7f2b7b3c3f171b14d558260197994a68fc59a13ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-23T21:49:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c300d043c26cb2d99ed4f0c184c469cf2741b08a130486dc7604d4e29c6eeae1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.5847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}