Pith Number

pith:AQHGINGY

pith:1997:AQHGINGYFQCQUBSD4MS6GFPV7R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

't Hooft's Order-Disorder Parameters and the Dual Potential

H. M. Chan (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Oxford University), S. T. Tsou (Mathematical Institute

arxiv:hep-th/9702117 v1 · 1997-02-14 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQHGINGYFQCQUBSD4MS6GFPV7R}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:56.176378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

040e6434d82c050a0643e325e315f5fc59649514fc9b72cc040bc31affafda89

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9702117 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9702117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9702117 · pith_short_12: AQHGINGYFQCQ · pith_short_16: AQHGINGYFQCQUBSD · pith_short_8: AQHGINGY

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/AQHGINGYFQCQUBSD4MS6GFPV7R \
  | 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: 040e6434d82c050a0643e325e315f5fc59649514fc9b72cc040bc31affafda89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "202ce6550b0cc845895e2e5f572da2ecf48f648654d8c291b65cce703293fc59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-14T16:12:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93f3e6422e8ed6e91123ff68be9f17d7546f0995830b548d4329e7deef2c4ad2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9702117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}