Pith Number

pith:RI4UZ5OD

pith:2012:RI4UZ5ODPJ5E5CHPC44BGOLNGV

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Exact Scale-Invariant Background of Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Defects

Daniel G. Figueroa, Jon Urrestilla, Mark Hindmarsh

arxiv:1212.5458 v2 · 2012-12-21 · astro-ph.CO · hep-ph · hep-th

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:31:08.754715Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a394cf5c37a7a4e88ef173813396d357a3de433d7f4f4be276940d24aa7477f

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.5458 · arxiv_version: 1212.5458v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.5458 · pith_short_12: RI4UZ5ODPJ5E · pith_short_16: RI4UZ5ODPJ5E5CHP · pith_short_8: RI4UZ5OD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RI4UZ5ODPJ5E5CHPC44BGOLNGV \
  | 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: 8a394cf5c37a7a4e88ef173813396d357a3de433d7f4f4be276940d24aa7477f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0fd5310ba5f73d1f82cea624e5a46c7995d889095c079461d82b87c3c1465e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-21T14:25:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "354146441d2a069fd5a261695ddb696e2a5e8d50885989b447593087b1057d30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.5458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}