Pith Number

pith:OPII5PWI

pith:2002:OPII5PWIOMHR4JYT3KY3DZPZLT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Monopoles, Vortices and Strings: Confinement and Deconfinement in 2+1 Dimensions at Weak Coupling

Alex Kovner, Ian I. Kogan

arxiv:hep-th/0205026 v1 · 2002-05-02 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPII5PWIOMHR4JYT3KY3DZPZLT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:05.618822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73d08ebec8730f1e2713dab1b1e5f95cdd60be5a7f0f3007f82ab356905aa0e6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0205026 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0205026v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0205026 · pith_short_12: OPII5PWIOMHR · pith_short_16: OPII5PWIOMHR4JYT · pith_short_8: OPII5PWI

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/OPII5PWIOMHR4JYT3KY3DZPZLT \
  | 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: 73d08ebec8730f1e2713dab1b1e5f95cdd60be5a7f0f3007f82ab356905aa0e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8357ee26f3bd379711d42ba44098eda8a2d4d8bd77f1f815461a9e01e1ddb419",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-02T20:38:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07493c4e688cb440a9ed0de313eb636231db1cb671c1b19607c0b33dd5a90aed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0205026",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}