Pith Number

pith:KBYLCQEJ

pith:2012:KBYLCQEJRCLBG7D2MLWDGSY3WZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Making confining strings out of mesons

Mitsutoshi Nakamura, Naoto Yokoi, Ryuichiro Kitano

arxiv:1202.3260 v2 · 2012-02-15 · hep-ph · hep-lat · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBYLCQEJRCLBG7D2MLWDGSY3WZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:22:52.283012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5070b140898896137c7a62ec334b1bb6440c9b933ee32dfcc79e329975d3613c

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3260 · arxiv_version: 1202.3260v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3260 · pith_short_12: KBYLCQEJRCLB · pith_short_16: KBYLCQEJRCLBG7D2 · pith_short_8: KBYLCQEJ

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/KBYLCQEJRCLBG7D2MLWDGSY3WZ \
  | 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: 5070b140898896137c7a62ec334b1bb6440c9b933ee32dfcc79e329975d3613c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cd6b78e0f259a7cbaf6c8ca175ac426dff84a022a845bee2f6be6b0c9b26660",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-15T10:21:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d22a51f9d3be8b48ce80f4929e17ea5d530a9108408a0e97d7974a62506039f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}