Pith Number

pith:KD522DRZ

pith:2015:KD522DRZU2UGNKATMMTV6GNKUL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Origin of Confining Force

Daniel Zwanziger, Patrick Cooper

arxiv:1512.05725 v2 · 2015-12-17 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KD522DRZU2UGNKATMMTV6GNKUL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:14:01.549494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50fbad0e39a6a866a81363275f19aaa2d6640f8725dc7ca9446672613dfc2697

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.05725 · arxiv_version: 1512.05725v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.05725 · pith_short_12: KD522DRZU2UG · pith_short_16: KD522DRZU2UGNKAT · pith_short_8: KD522DRZ

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/KD522DRZU2UGNKATMMTV6GNKUL \
  | 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: 50fbad0e39a6a866a81363275f19aaa2d6640f8725dc7ca9446672613dfc2697

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8d981aae739c24e67a7c96db381563cf1ec3aa65aedb948f191cfaeb2704fbf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-17T19:13:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f615e0b7df58930496a65456a6965ec60f52ce495a1bda499c6f50aec98cf8e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.05725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}