Pith Number

pith:CU3PEDR7

pith:2019:CU3PEDR7K4YL5CEHC3PDXMM4JR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Textures and Global Monopoles as Seeds for Super-Massive Black Holes

ETH Zuerich, Hao Jiao (McGill, Robert Brandenberger, USTC)

arxiv:1908.04585 v1 · 2019-08-13 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CU3PEDR7K4YL5CEHC3PDXMM4JR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:39:56.967035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1536f20e3f5730be888716de3bb19c4c63a795da957c87cb984948068a8c6799

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.04585 · arxiv_version: 1908.04585v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.04585 · pith_short_12: CU3PEDR7K4YL · pith_short_16: CU3PEDR7K4YL5CEH · pith_short_8: CU3PEDR7

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CU3PEDR7K4YL5CEHC3PDXMM4JR \
  | 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: 1536f20e3f5730be888716de3bb19c4c63a795da957c87cb984948068a8c6799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96da16eef2bf4ec2262ae931136a3702a8eb1e4c84be90380059320554ff59fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-13T11:37:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d3662c0cb135619302dec4363c31413054245e259b6961281b948d4c4c3f3ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.04585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}