Pith Number

pith:BYRCLCN5

pith:2003:BYRCLCN5M7C6TD3IGLVV5VRYIO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kinks in Time and their Relation to Confinement

John E. Wang

arxiv:hep-th/0309225 v1 · 2003-09-24 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYRCLCN5M7C6TD3IGLVV5VRYIO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:53.618779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e222589bd67c5e98f6832eb5ed63843a9f924f6e27d1469efc5fc985ab53bf8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0309225 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0309225v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0309225 · pith_short_12: BYRCLCN5M7C6 · pith_short_16: BYRCLCN5M7C6TD3I · pith_short_8: BYRCLCN5

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/BYRCLCN5M7C6TD3IGLVV5VRYIO \
  | 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: 0e222589bd67c5e98f6832eb5ed63843a9f924f6e27d1469efc5fc985ab53bf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de6918c9fbab8552908c8260db9d9a930ad1e3f396ce4614014fde65209c8db5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-24T18:58:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "908f25d70fa5dda69017ecc8d8473a0935c8b85d3b3374c23e4720f78a38a5f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0309225",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}