Pith Number

pith:VLQNLNJ4

pith:2018:VLQNLNJ432G5XQ5HFXVK7IIOMJ

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Impact of Indirect Contacts in Emerging Infectious Disease on Social Networks

Ahmad El Shoghri, Bernard Mans, Frank de Hoog, Md Shahzamal, Raja Jurdak

arxiv:1803.07968 v2 · 2018-03-21 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph · q-bio.PE

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\pithnumber{VLQNLNJ432G5XQ5HFXVK7IIOMJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:46.897959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aae0d5b53cde8ddbc3a72deaafa10e6269c22404ad25a53a65f30c2e583d78a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.07968 · arxiv_version: 1803.07968v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.07968 · pith_short_12: VLQNLNJ432G5 · pith_short_16: VLQNLNJ432G5XQ5H · pith_short_8: VLQNLNJ4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLQNLNJ432G5XQ5HFXVK7IIOMJ \
  | 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: aae0d5b53cde8ddbc3a72deaafa10e6269c22404ad25a53a65f30c2e583d78a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "acf7a4540e250d769e9d6e5d2b25eed4107da01ca262c146afc08f375c096389",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-21T15:31:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5d84d7c1e9dd2402077e53f77fc0f0cbc207a3998570c21dfbf79a946f2bb61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.07968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}