Pith Number

pith:XCFN65BD

pith:2025:XCFN65BDHNIQT7OHV4HI3LR6AP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why can't Epidemiology be automated (yet)?

David Bann, Ed Lowther, Liam Wright, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk

arxiv:2507.15617 v1 · 2025-07-21 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XCFN65BDHNIQT7OHV4HI3LR6AP}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-09T02:07:05.843122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b88adf74233b5109fdc7af0e8dae3e03eee62a0db816f529ca663c82287ff9d2

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.15617 · arxiv_version: 2507.15617v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.15617 · pith_short_12: XCFN65BDHNIQ · pith_short_16: XCFN65BDHNIQT7OH · pith_short_8: XCFN65BD

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/XCFN65BDHNIQT7OHV4HI3LR6AP \
  | 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: b88adf74233b5109fdc7af0e8dae3e03eee62a0db816f529ca663c82287ff9d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7caeebf0c265e498db00f2c4fa736351310cbe8eb67fa83c15eb348b191a0b0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-21T13:41:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba2ccdc89e0e6d53530c5335e9e46760f8b0aad4eb8690c6bc08e6773080bc67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.15617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}