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pith:1995:Z7IM6B7ZQSC4OCASZ3DATBVYFC
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Formation of Black Holes from Collapsed Cosmic String Loops

R. R. Caldwell & Paul Casper

arxiv:gr-qc/9509012 v1 · 1995-09-06 · gr-qc · astro-ph

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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfd0cf07f98485c70812cec60986b828a2f6b8376125d9ebde0140f9aacff8ec

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9509012 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9509012v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9509012 · pith_short_12: Z7IM6B7ZQSC4 · pith_short_16: Z7IM6B7ZQSC4OCAS · pith_short_8: Z7IM6B7Z
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z7IM6B7ZQSC4OCASZ3DATBVYFC \
  | 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: cfd0cf07f98485c70812cec60986b828a2f6b8376125d9ebde0140f9aacff8ec
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64519bb4725786620d8118a4544c83d905d331bc61846a83ae2ee32d24606e99",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1995-09-06T16:35:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c045a02edc7fcc1b31f8b78f391c4b441a623ea90cb090b1a85955ee2186b517"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9509012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}