Pith Number

pith:3JF2XZQ6

pith:2023:3JF2XZQ63M5K2LJZND7U3UIKIM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement and Deconfinement in Gauge Theories: A Quantum Field Theory

A. P. Balachandran

arxiv:2305.16918 v2 · 2023-05-26 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JF2XZQ63M5K2LJZND7U3UIKIM}

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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	2026-07-05T08:56:12.763755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da4babe61edb3aad2d3968ff4dd10a431f90525b6a4d4511424eba90db646fe0

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.16918 · arxiv_version: 2305.16918v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.16918 · pith_short_12: 3JF2XZQ63M5K · pith_short_16: 3JF2XZQ63M5K2LJZ · pith_short_8: 3JF2XZQ6

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/3JF2XZQ63M5K2LJZND7U3UIKIM \
  | 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: da4babe61edb3aad2d3968ff4dd10a431f90525b6a4d4511424eba90db646fe0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9b8a818d1de71d1262cf222be219e3e29e89480cff23de31e00037f50112caa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-26T13:31:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62dd1e85852a4f1e6a0b24fd4cfa4768499addb6a0cdbcc30732381e0479b23d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.16918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}