Pith Number

pith:5IZJPTLC

pith:1999:5IZJPTLCLX3GFKAFAO2K5J27AO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic String Loops Collapsing to Black Holes

A.L. Larsen, M. Christensen, R.N. Hansen

arxiv:gr-qc/9902048 v2 · 1999-02-17 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\pithnumber{5IZJPTLCLX3GFKAFAO2K5J27AO}

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4 Citations 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.

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Constraints on Primordial Black Holes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:53:52.204049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea3297cd625df662a80503b4aea75f0384fca80e29801c67ad3d04a22cc260c3

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9902048 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9902048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9902048 · pith_short_12: 5IZJPTLCLX3G · pith_short_16: 5IZJPTLCLX3GFKAF · pith_short_8: 5IZJPTLC

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/5IZJPTLCLX3GFKAFAO2K5J27AO \
  | 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: ea3297cd625df662a80503b4aea75f0384fca80e29801c67ad3d04a22cc260c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98ccbb0e242c7a66a887d3dbccbb4b6e3025fe8c1af84e32f8192068567b0ac9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-17T10:31:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4778c408ae05fdcc28e9b9d4c5f5672c41018403bba74de089eb3e50f032a3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9902048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}