Pith Number

pith:AFUOWOWL

pith:2026:AFUOWOWL3RRHMGZPWKZD3KQHWG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement as Decoding: Higher Form Codes and Lattice Yang-Mills Theory

Ning Bao

arxiv:2608.02452 v1 · 2026-08-03 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFUOWOWL3RRHMGZPWKZD3KQHWG}

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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	2026-08-04T02:43:32.199954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0168eb3acbdc62761b2fb2b23daa07b1876c1a5a74ef72379df284240b5bde57

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02452 · arxiv_version: 2608.02452v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02452 · pith_short_12: AFUOWOWL3RRH · pith_short_16: AFUOWOWL3RRHMGZP · pith_short_8: AFUOWOWL

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/AFUOWOWL3RRHMGZPWKZD3KQHWG \
  | 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: 0168eb3acbdc62761b2fb2b23daa07b1876c1a5a74ef72379df284240b5bde57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "247b264517c2db6c40537d8fc6546aefc7371e51d771ab0ee2e483bec6988a09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T16:26:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6302bcfe498402e2fe6b7dda4f7eb8e91d8b48d730bef28929903edbfe0aab3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02452",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}