Pith Number

pith:KI2TW2XE

pith:2001:KI2TW2XE4KV3IERUYTDFDMRYWO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

't Hooft Loops, Electric Flux Sectors and Confinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory

(2) University Erlangen-Nuremberg), CERN, Lorenz von Smekal (2) ((1) ETH Zurich, Philippe de Forcrand (1)

arxiv:hep-lat/0107018 v2 · 2001-07-25 · hep-lat · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KI2TW2XE4KV3IERUYTDFDMRYWO}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:24:29.443366Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52353b6ae4e2abb41234c4c651b238b3be8e6d37783771b2230aa42f9ecf33b1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/0107018 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/0107018v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0107018 · pith_short_12: KI2TW2XE4KV3 · pith_short_16: KI2TW2XE4KV3IERU · pith_short_8: KI2TW2XE

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/KI2TW2XE4KV3IERUYTDFDMRYWO \
  | 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: 52353b6ae4e2abb41234c4c651b238b3be8e6d37783771b2230aa42f9ecf33b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0466d7b96282cd0b003c304f05b53fbb6e806b011dbaabb5195da99aa3dd784",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "2001-07-25T14:36:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16bc715fe3123a296ce46d445d2bc1cf7f7903f58504a835a3fdf75418946891"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/0107018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}