Pith Number

pith:NM5P76PE

pith:1998:NM5P76PEVN2B7DMJCZHOYQHXID

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Gravitational Scattering of Cosmic Strings by Non-Rotating Black Holes

Jean-Pierre De Villiers, Valeri Frolov

arxiv:gr-qc/9812016 v4 · 1998-12-04 · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{NM5P76PEVN2B7DMJCZHOYQHXID}

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4 Citations open

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Cosmic strings in the complex symmetron model

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:08:53.731869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b3afff9e4ab741f8d89164eec40f740ec3108c12ca0aae1adf06fd970c66e66

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9812016 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9812016v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9812016 · pith_short_12: NM5P76PEVN2B · pith_short_16: NM5P76PEVN2B7DMJ · pith_short_8: NM5P76PE

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/NM5P76PEVN2B7DMJCZHOYQHXID \
  | 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: 6b3afff9e4ab741f8d89164eec40f740ec3108c12ca0aae1adf06fd970c66e66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6accb367fb7fcf11269310c81aacefa1533edfc846196fa22759b8153e8b471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-04T18:06:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9a61e62f5f69f31f9b891452691f2991358ac26f454ba1e47267e40c5005955"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9812016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}