Pith Number

pith:Z7RTFWP2

pith:2006:Z7RTFWP2NRPZYO632KMV5CTBCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reionization from cosmic string loops

Alexander Vilenkin, Ken D. Olum

arxiv:astro-ph/0605465 v1 · 2006-05-18 · astro-ph · hep-th

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\pithnumber{Z7RTFWP2NRPZYO632KMV5CTBCK}

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

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:58:45.463978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfe332d9fa6c5f9c3bdbd2995e8a61128b0f41d8731bc9e7527329d00c535052

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0605465 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0605465v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0605465 · pith_short_12: Z7RTFWP2NRPZ · pith_short_16: Z7RTFWP2NRPZYO63 · pith_short_8: Z7RTFWP2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z7RTFWP2NRPZYO632KMV5CTBCK \
  | 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: cfe332d9fa6c5f9c3bdbd2995e8a61128b0f41d8731bc9e7527329d00c535052

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ee0af06780afe146b784c19d3da7abca5e5cb25aad0ada6377fbecd1672db71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-05-18T17:00:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cbe85187c08b8cbaa2fda842296688a9d167541e75733fe66be80108979610d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0605465",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}