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pith:W6HIF67O

pith:2012:W6HIF67OHR4SQJOSAWOYVOGWXE
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Supermassive Seeds for Supermassive Black Holes

Daniel E. Holz (U. of Chicago), Daniel J. Whalen (CMU, Hui Li (LANL), Jarrett L. Johnson (LANL), LANL)

arxiv:1211.0548 v3 · 2012-11-02 · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{W6HIF67OHR4SQJOSAWOYVOGWXE}

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:53:26.397726Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b78e82fbee3c792825d2059d8ab8d6b926acbb211234067f49f3e0a0f7c778e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0548 · arxiv_version: 1211.0548v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0548 · pith_short_12: W6HIF67OHR4S · pith_short_16: W6HIF67OHR4SQJOS · pith_short_8: W6HIF67O
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W6HIF67OHR4SQJOSAWOYVOGWXE \
  | 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: b78e82fbee3c792825d2059d8ab8d6b926acbb211234067f49f3e0a0f7c778e1
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85b4417bc5290ab8a34f4ab085a6803540346f13b16c4b32f0c9851ad7959214",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-02T20:01:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa0e992908964777af6c3df62d9168af1571dfc477acdf2416a5641bf76bd16f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0548",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}