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pith:GAH2347I

pith:1998:GAH2347IOF3QJZCXKESKL64Y6H
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On the geometry of the Hawking Turok instanton

CSIC), Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz (IMAFF

arxiv:hep-th/9803178 v1 · 1998-03-21 · hep-th

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Canonical hash

300fadf3e8717704e4575124a5fb98f1e1e8df2fbdd17c2b0082b121b5d51876

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9803178 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9803178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9803178 · pith_short_12: GAH2347IOF3Q · pith_short_16: GAH2347IOF3QJZCX · pith_short_8: GAH2347I
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GAH2347IOF3QJZCXKESKL64Y6H \
  | 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: 300fadf3e8717704e4575124a5fb98f1e1e8df2fbdd17c2b0082b121b5d51876
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-21T18:48:35Z",
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  },
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