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pith:1998:U2X56ERLWUXDYVZXTU3I5PRXKV
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Cosmological models (Carg\`{e}se lectures 1998)

George F R Ellis, Henk van Elst (University of Cape Town)

arxiv:gr-qc/9812046 v5 · 1998-12-14 · gr-qc

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Canonical hash

a6afdf122bb52e3c57379d368ebe3755429c15ceeae60bf2c1382123c8ca853a

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9812046 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9812046v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9812046 · pith_short_12: U2X56ERLWUXD · pith_short_16: U2X56ERLWUXDYVZX · pith_short_8: U2X56ERL
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2X56ERLWUXDYVZXTU3I5PRXKV \
  | 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: a6afdf122bb52e3c57379d368ebe3755429c15ceeae60bf2c1382123c8ca853a
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b289e1b8d00311b6769404e65f2ebf817dbecf5f70e5e49a465f0082205c6dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-14T14:58:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22dff4b78e0a293971dde765078aba84852279ca0ece1a83fe6f2fe73e6cc6a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9812046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}