Pith Number

pith:E4VFCBWJ

pith:2004:E4VFCBWJXTOCLU5WYS24UK6Q2L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement and Liberation

A. M. Polyakov

arxiv:hep-th/0407209 v1 · 2004-07-23 · hep-th · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4VFCBWJXTOCLU5WYS24UK6Q2L}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:19.100919Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

272a5106c9bcdc25d3b6c4b5ca2bd0d2d54a71e173da6322f94576327686c005

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0407209 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0407209v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0407209 · pith_short_12: E4VFCBWJXTOC · pith_short_16: E4VFCBWJXTOCLU5W · pith_short_8: E4VFCBWJ

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/E4VFCBWJXTOCLU5WYS24UK6Q2L \
  | 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: 272a5106c9bcdc25d3b6c4b5ca2bd0d2d54a71e173da6322f94576327686c005

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fba08c40999db5c026d4d9417deb551d724745fd9e7e48a46555752ef5355ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-23T17:09:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163464e8dcdea4098efb4beb8e1ee0c050c710b140c63ef6a172b7b125da91d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0407209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}