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pith:1999:QRVW656OLB3EKT3OHQLK76CPSS
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Electric Character of Strange Stars

Astronomy Department, Beijing, G. J. Qiao (1) ((1) CAS-PKU Beijing Astrophysics Center, Peking University, P.R.China), R. X. Xu (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9908176 v1 · 1999-08-17 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

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arxiv: astro-ph/9908176 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9908176v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9908176 · pith_short_12: QRVW656OLB3E · pith_short_16: QRVW656OLB3EKT3O · pith_short_8: QRVW656O
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QRVW656OLB3EKT3OHQLK76CPSS \
  | 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: 846b6f77ce5876454f6e3c16aff84f94a528e833fb887ce3b992285b6e213a71
Canonical record JSON
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