Pith Number

pith:A7I6A4TL

pith:1997:A7I6A4TLOJZQ5QO2RHRXBG6DAN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Center vortices and confinement vs. screening

John M. Cornwall

arxiv:hep-th/9712248 v2 · 1997-12-29 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A7I6A4TLOJZQ5QO2RHRXBG6DAN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:05:49.077895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07d1e0726b72730ec1da89e3709bc3037e2d12cda35760ab3e9248f596e9e58f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9712248 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9712248v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9712248 · pith_short_12: A7I6A4TLOJZQ · pith_short_16: A7I6A4TLOJZQ5QO2 · pith_short_8: A7I6A4TL

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/A7I6A4TLOJZQ5QO2RHRXBG6DAN \
  | 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: 07d1e0726b72730ec1da89e3709bc3037e2d12cda35760ab3e9248f596e9e58f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d57bb5c1f1c9b6a1481eb0d2262f0059848ea44e579753d3a1a4538506c72d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-29T19:22:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6f4600257c61e78cbe27e3b302cec357f539722829ef070bb321416f4cf7419"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9712248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}