Pith Number

pith:DVJ4N24P

pith:1998:DVJ4N24PXOVLDNPQDIZJJMRHMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fractional Branes, Confinement, and Dynamically Generated Superpotentials

John Brodie

arxiv:hep-th/9803140 v2 · 1998-03-17 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DVJ4N24PXOVLDNPQDIZJJMRHMJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:55.434636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d53c6eb8fbbaab1b5f01a3294b22762603c35922ad772a2bce27b53b450bff4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9803140 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9803140v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9803140 · pith_short_12: DVJ4N24PXOVL · pith_short_16: DVJ4N24PXOVLDNPQ · pith_short_8: DVJ4N24P

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/DVJ4N24PXOVLDNPQDIZJJMRHMJ \
  | 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: 1d53c6eb8fbbaab1b5f01a3294b22762603c35922ad772a2bce27b53b450bff4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "467e87a9502f36b3e5a3b4c1b2118c7dfda5b7787baeb504eeeffb560c40c37c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-17T20:16:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8221552106dd13225453a0eb250a0da9327f5764a06b53b755888b39fb55be2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9803140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}