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pith:YJKOHTR3

pith:2019:YJKOHTR3O5STO3ZKPPZBOCNJWC

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Direct determination of cosmic string loop density from simulations

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum

arxiv:1912.10017 v1 · 2019-12-20 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Not-quite-primordial black holes seeded by cosmic string loops

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:04:10.426123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c254e3ce3b7765376f2a7bf21709a9b08e0c3ef01082ab83d975e0d1274b748d

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.10017 · arxiv_version: 1912.10017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.10017 · pith_short_12: YJKOHTR3O5ST · pith_short_16: YJKOHTR3O5STO3ZK · pith_short_8: YJKOHTR3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YJKOHTR3O5STO3ZKPPZBOCNJWC \
  | 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: c254e3ce3b7765376f2a7bf21709a9b08e0c3ef01082ab83d975e0d1274b748d

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9da5c2a5eab631050a8933455ed22f9c376934e955bf53d5884b1b9334f974a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-20T18:47:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60ecfef50fd96b2f71941ae2075097f95d1bb01a8ca72aaa32c457876bb600d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.10017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}