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pith:1997:S5IHELHO6NU4YNIRN67CJQS5U2
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Limits on Black Hole Formation from Cosmic String Loops

Jane H. MacGibbon, Robert H. Brandenberger, U. F. Wichoski

arxiv:astro-ph/9707146 v1 · 1997-07-14 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

9750722ceef369cc35116fbe24c25da6a9bab3d121077e69aa736ff5096dfbc9

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arxiv: astro-ph/9707146 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9707146v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9707146 · pith_short_12: S5IHELHO6NU4 · pith_short_16: S5IHELHO6NU4YNIR · pith_short_8: S5IHELHO
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S5IHELHO6NU4YNIRN67CJQS5U2 \
  | 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: 9750722ceef369cc35116fbe24c25da6a9bab3d121077e69aa736ff5096dfbc9
Canonical record JSON
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    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-14T19:55:12Z",
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