Pith Number

pith:WB5PTVOJ

pith:2015:WB5PTVOJGSQV2HX43PWGS7C2DM

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Cosmic string loop shapes

Benjamin Shlaer, Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum

arxiv:1508.02693 v1 · 2015-08-11 · astro-ph.CO · hep-th

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\pithnumber{WB5PTVOJGSQV2HX43PWGS7C2DM}

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Gravitational waves from cosmic strings with friction: analytical approximations and parameter space

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:31:31.691669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b07af9d5c934a15d1efcdbec697c5a1b1dfa7ea2cf3bbcd1af6e0f2b5aae8ce2

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02693 · arxiv_version: 1508.02693v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02693 · pith_short_12: WB5PTVOJGSQV · pith_short_16: WB5PTVOJGSQV2HX4 · pith_short_8: WB5PTVOJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WB5PTVOJGSQV2HX43PWGS7C2DM \
  | 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: b07af9d5c934a15d1efcdbec697c5a1b1dfa7ea2cf3bbcd1af6e0f2b5aae8ce2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "005801b2343468ff6455b66e00293b17a3d0bf7357ab14a1dc3433ff9ac42585",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-11T19:12:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f802932e97c5da58dc95523351ff0e45bcff6cba6c23d0db15a2e2e7e44a34b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}