Pith Number

pith:EW4VEV3B

pith:1999:EW4VEV3BMYIWDZFGFSDJSJU3KC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Color Confinement in QCD due to Topological Defects

Kei-Ichi Kondo

arxiv:hep-th/9909208 v1 · 1999-09-29 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EW4VEV3BMYIWDZFGFSDJSJU3KC}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:37.393085Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25b9525761661161e4a62c8699269b5083df066b894dca2bdd50da12015315ba

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9909208 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9909208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909208 · pith_short_12: EW4VEV3BMYIW · pith_short_16: EW4VEV3BMYIWDZFG · pith_short_8: EW4VEV3B

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/EW4VEV3BMYIWDZFGFSDJSJU3KC \
  | 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: 25b9525761661161e4a62c8699269b5083df066b894dca2bdd50da12015315ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34329a6c350343334816457d8a8113103b39451ba7e21087c618f433d57d97d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-29T08:14:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b22dd82a808a60394243be1106b9db0fbca1a9dabe9b108fdbcf520a8ac7353e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9909208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}