Pith Number

pith:JMEQPI6Q

pith:1998:JMEQPI6Q3WTX4ESBYJMCLT44PV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Yang-Mills Theory as a Deformation of Topological Field Theory, Dimensional Reduction and Quark Confinement

Japan), Kei-Ichi Kondo (Chiba Univ.

arxiv:hep-th/9801024 v4 · 1998-01-07 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMEQPI6Q3WTX4ESBYJMCLT44PV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:01.842214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b0907a3d0dda77e1241c25825cf9c7d4b400183f287268da2222aae39c2ceb4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9801024 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9801024v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9801024 · pith_short_12: JMEQPI6Q3WTX · pith_short_16: JMEQPI6Q3WTX4ESB · pith_short_8: JMEQPI6Q

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/JMEQPI6Q3WTX4ESBYJMCLT44PV \
  | 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: 4b0907a3d0dda77e1241c25825cf9c7d4b400183f287268da2222aae39c2ceb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8dccdfd8bf3001f4f31b78f7102495001d95aac68822028f864d7f1801586ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-01-07T04:44:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4573c85145e56833aa98566ca2e93db953a9a18c1895a2cc9fe27140c6cab648"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9801024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}