Pith Number

pith:D4LAYYKA

pith:2000:D4LAYYKAES5MQKLCIYVHMNRUR7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the String Description of Confinement

Cesar Gomez, Enrique Alvarez

arxiv:hep-th/0003205 v2 · 2000-03-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D4LAYYKAES5MQKLCIYVHMNRUR7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:36:13.121364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f160c614024bac82962462a7636348fd06dde046371cf286c65cd5a97bfac5d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0003205 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0003205v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0003205 · pith_short_12: D4LAYYKAES5M · pith_short_16: D4LAYYKAES5MQKLC · pith_short_8: D4LAYYKA

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/D4LAYYKAES5MQKLCIYVHMNRUR7 \
  | 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: 1f160c614024bac82962462a7636348fd06dde046371cf286c65cd5a97bfac5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91fce16867babdc9188157af484eb66690a44ec3dd25c0857914d83f82a6ce89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-03-23T09:24:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51e52034c3dc8e067679eeb5d6ce7371f8c60cb1a165ffde20f887a41b6381ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0003205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}