Pith Number

pith:AKXCPQTR

pith:1996:AKXCPQTRBV6AM3VPCVCLVLJ67M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement, Spin, and QCD

M. G. Olsson

arxiv:hep-ph/9609426 v1 · 1996-09-20 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AKXCPQTRBV6AM3VPCVCLVLJ67M}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:24.825531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02ae27c2710d7c066eaf1544baad3efb1eb3f5cd0a24fb85e1503e70c9864cfc

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9609426 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9609426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9609426 · pith_short_12: AKXCPQTRBV6A · pith_short_16: AKXCPQTRBV6AM3VP · pith_short_8: AKXCPQTR

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/AKXCPQTRBV6AM3VPCVCLVLJ67M \
  | 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: 02ae27c2710d7c066eaf1544baad3efb1eb3f5cd0a24fb85e1503e70c9864cfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfaa4baadd3ec95d6a05508ccf33ad69fbc74b5fcfb8c426f5785350a80a0e16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-20T19:01:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89cd029d57c8ced6cc98bf3e485a5691f7ce03dcfbd605ef9f6fd00499f8a78e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9609426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}