Pith Number

pith:QT2QPGSR

pith:2016:QT2QPGSRROYIJBEQBKLVSEBD6U

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Is Gun Violence Contagious?

Charles Loeffler, Seth Flaxman

arxiv:1611.06713 v1 · 2016-11-21 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QT2QPGSRROYIJBEQBKLVSEBD6U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:33.111238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84f5079a518bb08484900a97591023f513b4318846cac241c1b439c2e3ff9fcb

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.06713 · arxiv_version: 1611.06713v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.06713 · pith_short_12: QT2QPGSRROYI · pith_short_16: QT2QPGSRROYIJBEQ · pith_short_8: QT2QPGSR

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/QT2QPGSRROYIJBEQBKLVSEBD6U \
  | 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: 84f5079a518bb08484900a97591023f513b4318846cac241c1b439c2e3ff9fcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5de139b11f6bd41a2940474cec232834767109dd5858052278a19d5347d7a328",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-21T10:36:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8977240ef80f546165c9f67e6c4afebd9f74567ac2a2fccb8f46303cca7a42ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.06713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}