Pith Number

pith:VLVEX2GY

pith:2015:VLVEX2GYUCVPFO46DSSY752A3M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spin flips in generic black hole binaries

Carlos O. Lousto, Hiroyuki Nakano, James Healy

arxiv:1506.04768 v2 · 2015-06-15 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:36.436163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaea4be8d8a0aaf2bb9e1ca58ff740db1b8c968b33bb8d560de006dbd959da97

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.04768 · arxiv_version: 1506.04768v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.04768 · pith_short_12: VLVEX2GYUCVP · pith_short_16: VLVEX2GYUCVPFO46 · pith_short_8: VLVEX2GY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLVEX2GYUCVPFO46DSSY752A3M \
  | 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: aaea4be8d8a0aaf2bb9e1ca58ff740db1b8c968b33bb8d560de006dbd959da97

Canonical record JSON

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      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-15T20:41:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2deb9d51bfb899a0038b6c85ae525797d45d76d9c791a1d0ab9db3d1bd76bce5"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}